Animal Use
The most common animals used in biomedical research
What are a rats and mice?
Using fewer animals in research
What is Reduce?
The most common form of scientific research done in a laboratory setting.
What is in vitro?
The group that is not given the intervention.
What is the control group?
This phase has the most test subjects.
What is Phase 3?
Animals that are exempt from the AWA, other than rats and mice.
What are birds?
Using methods other than animals in research.
What is Replace?
What is animal testing?
Research that does not change variables or interfere with what is naturally happening.
What is an observational study?
The phase that only has healthy volunteers.
What is Phase 1?
An animal that is used to study blindness and deafness.
What is a cat?
Making sure research animals are as pain-free as possible.
What is Refine?
This method is fast and efficient, but expensive and limited by data input.
What is computer simulation, or computer modeling?
A fake intervention used as a psychological control.
What is a placebo?
This is the phase that involves monitoring a drug after approval
What is Phase 4?
An animal that is used to study genetics and embryonic development.
What is a zebrafish?
The percent of animals that are never exposed to a painful stimulus in research.
What is 61%?
(responses between 55-65% are acceptable)
This method gives the most reliable data in biomedical research.
What is Human Testing, or Human Clinical Trials?
Neither the subject nor the research knows who was given the intervention.
What is double blinding?
The first clinical trials that look at if a drug is effective in people with the condition.
What is Phase 2?
What is an armadillo?
The belief that animals should be treated as humanely and ethically as possible by humans.
What is Animal Welfare?
This method is only effective after a disease has spread through a population.
What is epidemiology?
Two variables that occur in a similar pattern.
What is correlation?
The paperwork that is filed with the FDA to get approval to start human clinical testing.
What is an IND?