In addition to searching for research similar to your own, you will need to look for literature that mentions alternatives involving reduction, refinement, and replacement of animals in laboratory research.
Reduction and Refinement
Adverse Analgesic, hypnotic, sedative, tranquilizer Anesthesia, anaesthesia Anxiolytic Enrichment (behavioral, behavioural, environmental) Handling, housing, husbandry, caging |
Invasive, non-invasive Train, educate, teach, instruct |
Replacement
Anesthesia, anesthesia, anaesthesia Animal use alternatives |
Isolated (cell, tissue, organ) Mannequin, manikin, manikin Membrane, organ, organelle, slice, tissue, tissue equivalent Model (animal, cadaveric, interactive, mathematical, statistical, theoretical), modelling Plastination Replacement, surrogate Simulation (computer) Train, educate, teach, instruct Video Virtual (surgery, reality) Vitro (AND method, model, technique) |
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