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24 - 04 - 2019
A "3Rs Research Day" in Oxford
The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom organized, on April 8th, in partnership with the National Center for the Replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), a day dedicated to advances in reduction, refinement and replacement in animal research.
The day consisted of twelve presentations, a poster exhibition and an award for the best posters.
The presentations focused on:
- The modeling of cardiac function *
- Transparency
- The Drosophila model for cancer and diabetes
- CRISPR in physiology
- The NC3Rs resources
- Combination replacement methods in reproductive toxicology (CombiDART) *
- Protocol training in Oxford
- Activity monitoring as a measure of well-being
- Controlling social aggressiveness in mice *
- The control of body temperature in the mouse during surgery
- The obstacles to the diffusion of the 3Rs methods
- High-throughput fish embryo tests.
Presentations marked with an * are detailed on the Understanding Animal Research website.
https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/biomedical-training-courses/oxford-3rs-research-day-2019
https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/advances-in-3rs/