Where Have All the Rodents Gone? The Effects of Attrition in Experimental Research on Cancer and Stroke

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Holman, Constance ^a   Piper, Sophie K ^a   Grittner, Ulrike ^a   Diamantaras, Andreas Antonios ^a   Kimmelman, Jonathan ^b   Siegerink, Bob ^a   Dirnagl, Ulrich ^a,c,d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; RODENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; META ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEOPLASMS; RODENTIA; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE;

EID: 84961297974     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002331     Document Type: Article

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