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    Refining procedures

    Refining procedures

    General

    • Using animals in research? It's time to refine! (2017)
    • Refining procedures for the administration of substances (2001)
    • Removal of blood from laboratory mammals and birds (1993)
    • Refined methods of genotyping fish (2022)

    Biotelemetry

    • Refinements in telemetry procedures (2003, with BVAAWF/FRAME/UFAW)

    Vaccine studies

    • Three Rs approaches in the production and quality control of fish vaccines (2011, not open access)
    • Application of the 3Rs to challenge assays used in vaccine testing (2010, with BVAAWF/FRAME/UFAW)
    • Advancing animal welfare and the 3Rs in the batch testing of veterinary vaccines (2008)
    • Batch safety testing of veterinary vaccines - potential welfare implication of injection volumes (2008)

    Humane killing

    • A Good Death? Report of the second Newcastle meeting on laboratory animal euthanasia (2016, meeting funded by the NC3Rs)
    • Newcastle consensus meeting on carbon dioxide euthanasia of laboratory animals (2006, meeting funded by Laboratory Animals Limited, NC3Rs, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne)

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