Research Papers
Need help understanding the facts about animal experiments? There are many resources available – academic papers, systematic reviews and conference proceedings - that provide credible references as to why animals are not good models for human medicines.
The following list provides links to such items we believe can assist you.
- Citation
- Abolins, S., King, E. C., Lazarou, L., Weldon, L., Hughes, L., Drescher, P., et al. (2017). The comparative immunology of wild and laboratory mice, Mus musculus domesticus. Nature Communications(3 May).
- Link:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14811.pdf
- Keywords:
- Bias, mouse model, mice
- Record type:
- Academic Paper,Research Study
- Citation
- Abstracts of the 9th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Prague, 2014. (24-28 August).
- Link:
- http://www.altex.ch/ALTEX-Proceedings/Current-Proceedings.97.html
- Keywords:
- Alternatives, 3Rs, animal model
- Record type:
- Conference Proceedings
- Citation
- Akhtar, A. (2011). Animals and public health: Why treating animals better is critical to human welfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Link:
- http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230358522
- Keywords:
- Animal welfare, ethics, animal experiments, public health
- Record type:
- Book
- Citation
- Akhtar, A. (2015). The flaws and human harms of animal experimentation. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 24(04), 407-419.
- Link:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180115000079
- Keywords:
- Ethics, drug development, bias, species specificity, animal model
- Record type:
- Academic Paper
- Citation
- Amerio, A., Gálvez, J. F., Odone, A., Dalley, S. A., & Ghaemi, S. N. (2015). Carcinogenicity of psychotropic drugs: A systematic review of US Food and Drug Administration–required preclinical in vivo studies
- Link:
- http://anp.sagepub.com/content/49/8/686.abstract
- Keywords:
- Psychotropic drugs, carcinogenicity, animal model, bias
- Record type:
- Citation
- Amisten, S., Atanes, P., Hawkes, R., Ruz-Maldonado, I., Liu, B., Parandeh, F., et al. (2017). A comparative analysis of human and mouse islet G-protein coupled receptor expression. Scientific Reports, 7, 46600.
- Link:
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395952/pdf/srep46600.pdf
- Keywords:
- Bias, mouse model, mice
- Record type:
- Academic Paper,Research Study
- Citation
- Animal Justice Project USA, & Taxpayers Protection Alliance. (2016). Deadly doses: Exposing the Federal Government's funding of the slaughter of millions of dollars & countless creatures: Animal Justice Project USA and Taxpayers Protection Alliance
- Link:
- http://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/assets/files/Deadly%20Doses%20March%202016.pdf
- Keywords:
- Recreational drugs, waste of taxes, rats, mice
- Record type:
- Report
- Citation
- Archibald, K., Coleman, R., & Foster, C. (2011). Open letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley on safety of medicines. The Lancet, 377(9781), 1915.
- Link:
- http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960802-7/fulltext
- Keywords:
- Animal experiments, drug safety, drug effectiveness
- Record type:
- Expert Opinion
- Citation
- Bailey, J. (2009). An examination of chimpanzee use in human cancer research. Alternatives to laboratory animals : ATLA, 37(4), 399-416
- Link:
- https://crueltyfreeinternational.org/sites/default/files/Bailey_%20chimpanzees_cancer_ATLA_2009.pdf
- Keywords:
- Animal welfare, chimpanzees, non-human primates, drug evaluation
- Record type:
- Academic Paper,Review
- Citation
- Bailey, J. (2010). An assessment of the use of chimpanzees in hepatitis C research past, present and future: 1. Validity of the chimpanzee model. Alternatives to laboratory animals : ATLA, 38(5), 387-418
- Link:
- https://crueltyfreeinternational.org/sites/default/files/Bailey_hepC_future_1_ATLA_2010.pdf
- Keywords:
- Viral hepatitis vaccines, immunology, animal models, alternatives
- Record type:
- Academic Paper