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Most used animal in animal research
what is mice or rats?
The percentage of rats and mice are used in research
What is 90%-95%?
The percentage of guinea pigs, rabbits, or hamsters
What is 3%?
Dogs and rats are commonly used in research for which injuries?
What is spinal cord injuries?
The three R's of research
Life span of rats
what is 2-3 years?
This animal is used in cardiovascular studies
What is dogs?
Rats, mice, and monkey's were used in the research and development of this vaccine
What is polio vaccine?
what animal takes the same medications for heart disease and kidney failure as humans
What is dogs?
Laboratory technicians are responsible for
What is making sure the research animals are comfortable?
Mice age how many times faster than humans
The amount of animals used for research, education, and testing in the US every year
What is 26 million?
These animals have been used in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease research
What is primates?
Fewer than 1% of these two animals are used in medical research
What is cats and dogs?
This association ensures high quality standards in animal care by certifying technicians
What is the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science?
T or F: scientists can breed mice and rats with genetic alterations that mimic human diseases to study the progression of the diseases.
this organization requires all medications to be tested on animals prior to use on humans
What is the FDA?
What is cats?
Animals in biomedical research are cared for by
What is laboratory technicians?
The AAALAC requires this from all research facilities
What is accreditation?
The animal that is 99% genetically similar to humans
what is mice?
This has allowed us to create genetically identical animals to compare different medicines and procedures on them
What is Genetic research?
this act permits the use of dogs and cats from local shelters but due to restrictive legislation it rarely occurs
What is the Animal Welfare Act?
The animal welfare act requires this from all research facilities
What is to use research animals responsibly and treat them humanly?
The FDA requires
what is all medication to be tested on animals prior to being used on humans?