The Importance of Animal Experimentation for Safety and Biomedical Research
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-7349-3 (ISBN)
The necessity of animal experimentation.- Ethical and Legal Aspects.- Animal experimentation defended.- The ethics of animal use in biomedicine.- Legal and political problems of animal experimentation, the ‘Swiss battle’.- Experimentation and the law.- Experimentation on animals: animals as machines and animals as fetishes.- Recent Progress of Medicine Requiring the Use of Animals.- The role of animal experiments in pharmacological brain research.- Regeneration of the nervous system.- Endocrine glands, neuroendocrinology and animal experimentation.- Laboratory animals and cardiovascular pathology: means for better use.- The importance of animal models for hypertension research.- Animal experiments and recent progress in thrombosis research.- Models of human renal disease.- The necessity of animal experimentation in tumor immunology.- The use of animals in cancer chemotherapy.- The use of experimental animals in transplantation research.- Animal models for AIDS research.- The need for animal experimentation in drug and vaccine development against tropical diseases.- Use of Animals for Safety Reasons.- Toxicology: role of in vivo studies in establishing mcchanisms of toxicity.- Necessity of animal experiments for the safety evaluation and necessary consequences for public health.- The necessity of animal testing for safety evaluation and medical progress in reproductive biology and toxicology.- The need for animal experimentation in studying the carcinogenic risk of substances.- The Future of Animal Research.- Transgenic animals for human diseases and gene therapy.- Recent progress toward reducing the use of animal experimentation in biomedical research.- Animal use in drug research.
Zusatzinfo | VIII, 246 p. |
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Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Laboratoriumsmedizin |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie | |
Veterinärmedizin | |
ISBN-10 | 94-010-7349-X / 940107349X |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-010-7349-3 / 9789401073493 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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