animal testing
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Animal testing is the use of animals in scientific experiments—for medical research, drug development, or product safety.
Subjects range from mice to primates.
The practice raises ethical debates between those who see it as necessary for human health advances and those who consider it cruel: The cosmetics company abandoned animal testing after protests.
Also called animal experimentation.
Right and wrong principles
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
suffering · cruelty · humane · dilemma · consent · vivisection · speciesism · exploitation
Systematic testing of ideas
- preclinicalBefore human trials
- in vivoWithin living tissue
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- efficacyAbility to produce results
toxicology · pharmacology · biomedical · clinical trials · control group · placebo · dosage · LD50
Enclosure for living specimens
- miceSmall gnawing mammals
- ratsLong-tailed urban pests
- primatesOrder of higher mammals
- rabbitsBurrowing lagomorphs with long ears
specimen · cage · dissection · injection · biopsy · necropsy · sterile · pathogen
Manufactured therapeutic substances
- vaccineDisease prevention injection
- drug safetyMonitoring medicines for harm
- therapeuticsStudy of healing interventions
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
pharmacokinetics · antibody · immunology · oncology · gene therapy · side effects · toxicity · biotech
morality
Right and wrong principles
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- compassionConcern for others' distress
sentience · suffering · cruelty · humane · dilemma · consent · vivisection · speciesism · exploitation · activism
experimentation
Systematic testing of ideas
- preclinicalBefore human trials
- in vivoWithin living tissue
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
efficacy · toxicology · pharmacology · biomedical · clinical trials · control group · placebo · dosage · LD50 · carcinogenicity
vivarium
Enclosure for living specimens
rabbits · specimen · cage · dissection · injection · biopsy · necropsy · sterile · pathogen · biohazard
pharmaceuticals
Manufactured therapeutic substances
- vaccineDisease prevention injection
- drug safetyMonitoring medicines for harm
- therapeuticsStudy of healing interventions
clinical · pharmacokinetics · antibody · immunology · oncology · gene therapy · side effects · toxicity · biotech · treatment
- cosmetics regulationproduct safety, cosmetic ingredients, ingredient labeling, product labeling, safety standards
- drug researchdrug discovery, drug screening, drug approval, clinical trials, pharmacology
- veterinaryvets, vet visits, pet hospitals, vet bills, vaccine
- experimentsexperiment, experiments, test, tests, trials
- animal ethicshumane treatment, ethical treatment, sentient beings, cruelty prevention, humane slaughter
- animal researchpharmacokinetics, bioavailability, cancer research, wound healing, spinal cord injury