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  2. Doctors Against Animal Experiments - Wikipedia

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    Doctors Against Animal Experiments (DAAE; Ärzte gegen Tierversuche) is an animal rights organization based in Cologne, which campaigns for the complete abolition of animal testing under the motto "Medical progress is important - animal testing is the wrong way".

  3. Hans Ruesch - Wikipedia

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    An animal lover since his childhood, he became an activist against animal testing, while living in Rome. [1] Ruesch did not believe that medical research could benefit by using such methods. Instead, Ruesch insisted that medicine was led dangerously astray by what he saw as pseudo-science , and a fatally false methodology.

  4. Conditioned avoidance response test - Wikipedia

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    The test can detect antipsychotic-like activity both in the case of dopamine D 2 receptor antagonists and in the case of drugs lacking D 2 receptor antagonism. [1] [2] [6] The occupancy of the D 2 receptor by antagonists of this receptor required to inhibit the CAR is around 65 to 80%, which is similar to the occupancy at which therapeutic antipsychotic effects occur in humans with these drugs.

  5. Scientists who object to animal testing claim they are frozen ...

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    A spokesperson for the UK-based Understanding Animal Research organisation was sceptical about the scientists’ claims, saying: “Those who do animal testing are also the biggest investors in ...

  6. Alternatives to animal testing - Wikipedia

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    It promotes the use of alternative methods for animal testing, but does not oblige the test performer to do so; "Article 25.1 - In order to avoid animal testing, testing on vertebrate animals for the purposes of this Regulation shall be undertaken only as a last resort. It is also necessary to take measures limiting duplication of other tests."

  7. Three Rs (animal research) - Wikipedia

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    In 1954, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) decided to sponsor systematic research on the progress of humane techniques in the laboratory. [2] In October of that year, William Russell, described as a brilliant young zoologist who happened to be also a psychologist and a classical scholar, and Rex Burch, a microbiologist, were appointed to inaugurate a systematic study of ...

  8. Gill Langley - Wikipedia

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    Gillian Rose Langley (born 10 August 1952) [1] is a British scientist and writer who specialises in alternatives to animal testing and animal rights.She was, from 1981 until 2009, the science director of the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, a medical research charity developing non-animal research techniques. [2]

  9. On Abstinence from Eating Animals - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Porphyry from the Tree of Jesse at the Sucevița Monastery, 1535. On Abstinence from Eating Animals [a] (Koinē Greek: Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων, romanized: Peri apochēs empsychōn, Latin: De abstinentia ab esu animalium) is a 3rd-century treatise by Porphyry on the ethics of vegetarianism.