Animal testing and medicine

Veterinary Medicine: Influencing Animal and Human Medicine

Animal Testing

A configuration of unit cubes in three dimensions with integer coordinates is called an animal if the boundary of their union is homeomorphic to a sphere. Shermer discovered several animals from which no single cube may be removed such that the resulting configurations are also animals [16]. Here we obtain a dual result: we give an example of an animal to which no cube may be added within its m...

Alternatives in animal testing.

1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 3Department of Pathology, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610...

"One Medicine" for Animal and Human Health

2270 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 12, December 2004 tapped into the universal wish for harmony and peace. Well ahead of his time, he invited to his kingdoms not only leading human figures and innocent children but also a consortium of animals whose presence he found indispensable. Domesticated animals, part of his life as a farmer, appeared in realistic detail, ...

Psychological & Behavioural Animal Experiments and Research Testing

Psychologists have investigated the effects of deliberately induced stress, such as that arising from social isolation, either by solitary confinement or by separation of infant animals from their mother. Animals are also subjected to deliberate brain damage, in order to observe the effects on behaviour. Electric shocks or other painful stimuli are often used to study the process of learning wh...