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Human neuronal cells: possibilities in drug safety testing

Drug Target Review

This shift occurred following implementation of the Comprehensive in Vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) initiative in 2013 and extensive testing of hiPSC-cardiomyocytes with known proarrhythmic drugs. 1-4 This approach saves time, money, and resources, and ultimately leads to safer medicines going forward to the clinic.

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Exploring alternatives to animal testing in drug discovery

Drug Target Review

Animal testing plays a significant role in pre-clinical research and therefore requires the use of millions of animals. million scientific procedures involving live animals were carried out in 2020. million scientific procedures involving live animals were carried out in 2020. In Britain, 2.88

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

These rats, known as AA or P-lines, serve as animal models of alcoholism, exhibiting high alcohol-seeking behavior, withdrawal symptoms, and a predisposition to co-abuse ethanol and nicotine. Of course, AA and P-line rats are not the only research animals bred for the study of disease. It would be engineering,” he says.

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