1. Mouse pain study stirs debate : Nature News
procedures for assessing pain in rodent models of neuropathic pain — caused by nerve damage or dysfunction rather than stimulation of pain receptors. Traditional painkillers do not always successfully alleviate neuropathic pain, so such
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2. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
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Regulatory Campains - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
pain and Distress
In fall 2000, Public comment was sought by USDA's APHIS on revision of the agency's definition of pain and distress for animals used in research. There
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3. National Anti-Vivisection Society: 'Mouse Grimace Scale' to Help Identify Pa...
Scale' to Help Identify Pain in Humans and Animals May 9, 2010
A new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia shows that mice, like humans, express Pain through facial expressions.
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4. National Anti-Vivisection Society: Mouse Pain Study Stirs Debate
Mouse Pain Study Stirs Debate July 29, 2010 Canadian scientists vindicated after being accused of mistreating laboratory animals.
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5. Experiments on animals: did the EU cave in to lobbyists? – Telegraph Blogs
“up to mild†pain. MPs insisted that re-use should be allowed even when tests involve “moderate†pain..
On the positive side, the directive obliges national authorities to carry out regular inspections of laboratories
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who had died with chest pain. Discovering, as Jenner had, that arteries going to the heart were clogged, they postulated--accurately--that the decreased blood flow to the heart provoked chest pain. When the heart muscle does not receive enough
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7. National Anti-Vivisection Society: Animal Tests
cause extreme discomfort and pain to the animals involved. After the tests are completed, all of the animals are killed so that their internal organs can be examined.
In the Draize test for eye irritancy,solutions of products are applied
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