Animals Used in Experimental Pharmacology and 3 Rs

Scorpion Venom Pisoning in Experimental Animals

3. Studies of Cancer in Experimental Animals

The Working Group that evaluated smokeless tobacco previously noted that the majority of the early studies evaluated at that time (IARC, 1985) had various deficiencies, such as lack of quantitative and qualitative information on the nature of tobacco extracts and the degree of extraction, insufficient length of treatment, small group sizes and, in some cases, lack of appropriate controls. Since...

Fasting and Experimental Animals, Detrimental or Positive?

While fasting has been practiced for centuries, its beneficial effects was unknown until recently. This review tries to analyze the current literature of how fasting and intermittent fasting (IF) could affect clinical pathological parameters, learning, mood and brain plasticity. The effects of different ways of fasting on metabolism and stress were also explored. Animal experiments have elucida...

Isotopes in Experimental Pharmacology

The latest volume in this valuable series includes the following chapters: (1) The Determination of Amino Acids by High-Voltage Paper Electrophoresis, by S. Blackburn, who gives useful details for the rapid separation and analysis of amino acid mixtures; this reviewer was not convinced, however, that present-day electrophoretic methods can match ion-exchange chromatography in precision. (2) Mob...

Pharmacology, Clinical and Experimental

This book, written by Meyer and Gottlieb, professors of pharmacology at Vienna and Heidelberg, respectively, has been translated into English by Halsey, professor of pharmacology and clinical medicine at Tulane. It deals with " scientific drug therapy" and confines itself to that portion of pharmacology which should aid the physician in practising his profession. Medicinal substances are dealt ...