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The term "rabbit test" was first recorded in 1949, and was the origin of a common euphemism, "the rabbit died", for a positive pregnancy test. [4] The phrase was, in fact, based on a common misconception about the test. While many people assumed that the injected rabbit would die only if the woman was pregnant, in fact all rabbits used for the ...
In the UK in 2015, there were 3.33 million procedures on rodents (80% of total procedures that year). The most common species used were mice (3.03 million procedures, or 73% of total) and rats (268,522, or 6.5%).
The introduction of lithium revolutionized the treatment of manic-depressives by the 1970s. Prior to Cade's animal testing, manic-depressives were treated with a lobotomy or electro-convulsive therapy. In the 1950s the first safer, volatile anaesthetic halothane was developed through studies on rodents, rabbits, dogs, cats and monkeys. [30]
Using animal testing in the development of cosmetics may involve testing either a finished product or the individual ingredients of a finished product on animals, often rabbits, as well as mice, rats, monkeys, dogs, guinea pigs and other animals. Cosmetics can be defined as products applied to the body to enhance the body's appearance or to ...
Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision [1] and unexplained livestock death, [2] or animal mutilation) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under supposedly unusual, usually bloodless circumstances.
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The Homietos Motorcycle Club are an American outlaw motorcycle gang with reported activity and leadership in Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and Texas.Information surrounding the Homietos and its founding history is limited, however, the outlaw club in recent years has increasingly become the subject of a number of violent and well-publicized incidents involving other motorcycle clubs.
Jul. 15—A man who sat on Oklahoma's death for 27 years is scheduled to be executed. Jemaine Cannon, 51, is set to become Oklahoma's second executed death row inmate on July 20 at the Oklahoma ...