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ArticleEMBO reports2023

The fate of surplus laboratory animals: Minimizing the production of surplus animals has the greatest potential to reduce the number of laboratory animals: Minimizing the production of surplus animals has greatest potential to reduce the number of laboratory animals.

Hartmut Wewetzer, Tobias Wagenknecht, Bettina Bert, Gilbert Schönfelder

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Article in EMBO reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Why Animal Experiments Are Still Indispensable in Bone Research: A Statement by the European Calcified Tissue Society.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hartmut Wewetzer *Department of Risk Communication, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5806-0597
Tobias Wagenknecht *German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.
Bettina Bert *German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8202-9290
Gilbert SchönfelderGerman Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6134-1990
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To meet regulatory requirements and the political pressure to minimize the number of animals used in research, it is critical to reduce the production of surplus animals.

Indexed as

Animals, LaboratoryAnimal WelfareAnimals

Identifiers

PMID36715165
PMCPMC9986809
OpenAlexW4318478225

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