Format:
VII, 246 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
ISBN:
0-7923-0514-0
Note:
Contents: 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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tierversuch
;
Biologische Medizin
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Garattini, Silvio
