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ReviewJournal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences

A Review on Alternative Methods to Experimental Animals in Biological Testing: Recent Advancement and Current Strategies.

Asif Husain, Dhanalekshmi U Meenakshi, Aftab Ahmad, Neelima Shrivastava, Shah A Khan

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Review in Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Humanizing Zophobas morio larvae microbiota for rapid screening of emerging decolonization strategies against multidrug-resistant bacteria.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  2. Predicting the Toxicity In Silico of the Aqueous Extract ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Asif HusainDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.
Dhanalekshmi U MeenakshiCollege of Pharmacy, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Aftab AhmadDepartment of Health Information Technology, The Applied College, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Neelima ShrivastavaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.
Shah A KhanCollege of Pharmacy, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With an increase in the progression of research and development in the medical field, the experimental use of animals for the efficacy and safety testing of pharmaceuticals is on rise. Every year, millions of animals are used for experimental testing during which these suffer from pain and are then eventually sacrificed. Besides bioethical issues, animal experimentation is associated with many disadvantages like high cost, the requirement of skilled manpower, approval, and is time-consuming. Therefore, attempts have been made by researchers to design and develop a number of alternative methods that could bypass animal experiments. These methods not only give accurate results but can also save lives of millions of animals annually. Research techniques, including computer and robotics together with molecular biology techniques, are applied to discover new methods to replace animal testing. Several alternative methods are discussed in this review. Some of these methods can predict the behavior of drugs accurately and are as reliable as

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PMCPMC10790740

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