Pain and laboratory animals: Publication practices for better data reproducibility and better animal welfare

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Carbone, Larry ^a   Austin, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; DOG; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GONADECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PIG; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMATE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RODENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; THORACOTOMY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAIN; PUBLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84971264115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155001     Document Type: Article

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