ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IN RELATION TO PROTOZOAN TROPICAL DISEASES

Refinement) to Animal Experimentation

341 t4 Workshop Report* A Framework Program for the Teaching of Alternative Methods (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) to Animal Experimentation Mardas Daneshian 1, Mohammad A. Akbarsha 2, Bas Blaauboer 3, Francesca Caloni 4, Pierre Cosson 5, Rodger Curren 6, Alan Goldberg 7, Franz Gruber 8, Frauke Ohl 9, Walter Pfaller 10, Jan van der Valk 11, Pilar Vinardell , Joanne Zurlo , Thomas Hartung ...

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation

This special issue of ALTEX is publicising what the 3R Research Foundation has achieved in the past and what projects are currently underway. This special issue is intended to improve awareness of the projects funded by the Foundation and to provide a training tool. The first section includes updated descriptions of 20 projects from the past ten years. These projects, involving basic research, ...

Alternatives to Animal Experimentation

Ethical and Animal Welfare Considerations in Relation to Species Selection for Animal Experimentation

Ethical principles governing the conduct of experiments with animals are reviewed, especially those relating to the choice of species. Legislation requires that the potential harm to animals arising from any procedure should be assessed in advance and justified in terms of its possible benefit to society. Potential harms may arise both from the procedures and the quality of the animals' lifetim...

Tropical Protozoan Diseases: Natural Product Drug Discovery and Development

1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, 1113 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 3 Universidade do Vale do Itajaı́, Núcleo De Investigações Quı́mico-Farmacêuticas (NIQFAR), CCS, Brazil 4Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsv...