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Abstract
The use of animals as investigational subjects.
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- Animal Experimental Use
- Animal Research
- Animal Experimental Uses
- Experimental Use, Animal
- Experimental Uses, Animal
- Experimentation, Animal
- Research, Animal
- Animal Experiments
- Animal Experiment
- Experiment, Animal
- Experiments, Animal
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5 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data.
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Indexing Annotation
IM for moral, legal, ethical, social, and religious aspects of experiments on animals; do not routinely add for specific research studies involving animals
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History Note
2003; use ANIMAL WELFARE 1987-2002; for ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS use ANIMALS 1978-2003
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Previous Indexing
- Animal Welfare (1978-2002)
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W 20.55.A5
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Animal Experimentation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D032761. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D032761
- Animal Experimentation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing
- Animal Experimentation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38344