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A review on: Alternatives to animal experimental models
Imtiyaz Ansari
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, Nitesh Gupta, Abhaykumar Yadav
Department of Pharmacology, Oriental College of Pharmacy, Sector 2, Behind Sanpada Railway
Station, Sanpada West, Navi Mumbai-400705, Maharashtra, India
Article History:
Received on: 12 Jul 2021
Revised on: 15 Aug 2021
Accepted on: 17 Aug 2021
Keywords:
Alternatives,
Ethics,
In-silico,
Microdosing,
3 Rs,
Danio Rerio,
Drosophila Melanogaster
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An English solicitor, Jeremy Bentham, disdained the unregulated use of live-
stock, in the literature of 1780, which cast doubt on the inability to pay morale
to animals. Animal experiment was fundamental to scientiϐic science during
his life, but it has also been a question of heated popular and intellectual dis-
course from decades. Since then, general understanding and attitudes have
strengthened against the unethical or cruel application of animals for research
purposes. Russell & Burch provided in 1959 the principles set out during
UFAW of the clinical lab method. The alternative measures, replacements,
or non-animal steps shall be used as alternatives for live animal methods,
or methods of measurement without live animal use. The term ’alternative’
refers to approaches or strategies that substitute the overall use of laboratory
animals, minimize the number of animals used, or enhance a current system
or technology to reduce animal stress. In recent years, the creation of alterna-
tives to animals has been accelerated by designing projects with the intention
of developing and introducing alternatives. This report summarizes the key
potential approaches to animal science. An integrated use of these techniques
will offer an insight into the minimal use of animals for experimental research.
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Corresponding Author
Name: Imtiyaz Ansari
Phone: 7977221955
Email: imtiyaz.ansari@ocp.edu.in
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26452/ijrpp.v11i2.1416
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INTRODUCTION
Animals are widely used for the growth of medic-
inal therapy, toxicity assessment of prescription,
human use food safety assessment and other uses
of science, industry and health. Since at least 500
BC, livestock have been researched. By using ani-
mal experiments, researchers will explore various
diseases in drug production. Animals are affected
by pathogenic agents and studies are carried out.
These diseases are created artiϐicially by laborato-
ries in an effort to reproduce human diseases. This
allows scientists to design a new treatment by study-
ing animals. In try to determine out how the disease
progresses in the body; researchers will use ani-
mal experiments. Through examining animal mod-
els, scientists learn what causes and produces dis-
ease, and which genetic, climate or dietary factors
contribute to disease development. A wide variety
of various species, such as cats, rabbits, goats, dogs,
albino-rats, monks, monkeys, frogs, etc. are used for
this research, although the usual models for animals
are mice. The least regularly used birds and ϐish [1].
The core principles in research on animal rights and
ethics were the three Rs principles established in
the 1959 book ”The Principles of Humane Exper-
imental Technique.” (WMS Russel and RL Burch).
Replacement, reduction and reϐinement of the three
Rs speciϐically justify its use of alternative meth-
ods, reduction of laboratory models and rehabilita-
tion the three Rs values were universally and uni-
formly adopted internationally and were incorpo-
rated in regulatory policies and form part of animal
quality care. CPCSEA in India adopted another R
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