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This facility was built for the purpose of live animal testing. Animals for experimentation were bred in the facility too, to provide sterile conditions and a maximum amount of control. It is located in close proximity to the Benjamin Franklin Medical Center and the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology.
Killylea (/ k ɪ l iː ˈ l eɪ /; from Irish Coillidh Léith 'grey forest') is a small village and townland in Northern Ireland. It is within the Armagh City and District Council area. The village is set on a hill, with St Mark's Church of Ireland , built in 1832, at its summit.
978-1-4051-7523-4 The UFAW Handbook is a manual about care of animals used in animal testing . It is presented by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare .
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals, such as model organisms, in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. This approach can be contrasted with field studies in which animals are observed in ...
Replacing Animal Research was founded as FRAME by Dorothy Hegarty, who was introduced to the Three Rs by the biologist Charles Foister. [2] It was registered as a UK charity in 1969. [1] Replacing Animal Research had a starting fund of £100 and was first based in a room in the Hegarty house in Wimbledon, London.
Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus. Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) is an aqueous extract of motile blood cells from the Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus.LAL reacts with bacterial endotoxins such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are components of the bacterial capsule, the outermost membrane of cell envelope of gram-negative bacteria.
Faunalytics is a nonprofit organization that provides animal advocates with access to the research and analysis of various animal issues. [1] [2] [3] Its research areas include factory farming, veganism and vegetarianism, companion animals, animal testing, hunting, animal trapping, wild animal suffering, and the use of animals for entertainment purposes (zoos, circuses, racing, fights, etc.). [4]
It was established in 2004 after the publication of a 2002 House of Lords select committee report on Animals In Scientific Procedures [3] [4] As of 2021, the chief executive of NC3Rs is Dr Vicky Robinson, [5] who was appointed CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours "For services to Science and Animal Welfare".