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ReviewLaboratory animal research2020

The 'R' principles in laboratory animal experiments.

Kook Hyun Lee, Dong Won Lee, Byeong Chul Kang

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Review in Laboratory animal research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
56citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kook Hyun LeeDepartment of Anesthesiology, Seoul National University Hospital, 101 DaeHak-ro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 03080, South Korea. tunaefish@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6493-0472
Dong Won LeeDepartment of Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Byeong Chul KangDepartment of Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Seoul National University Hospital · KR

Funding

Seoul National University Hospital 0620062449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the Three Rs of replacement, reduction and refinement was proposed by Russel and Birch in 1959, researchers have a moral duty to minimize harm to animals. Even though animal experiments are performed by the Three Rs concept, animal researches which do not comply with international rules and standards are not accepted as well. As animal welfare has been important global issues, the methods to assess animal welfare compromise and distress have been proposed. Humanity is accepted as the goal of the Three Rs, however, another fourth R, 'Refusal' of fruitless protocol or 'Responsibility' for the experimental animal and social, scientific status of the animal experiments has been proposed. After establishing goals of animal research in a respective society, reliable knowledge can be obtained while improving laboratory animal welfare.

Indexed as

ReductionRefinementRefusalReplacementResponsibilityWelfare

Identifiers

PMID33298163
PMCPMC7724623
OpenAlexW3112455044

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