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Recent progress toward reducing the use of animal experimentation in biomedical research

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The Importance of Animal Experimentation for Safety and Biomedical Research

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Balls, M. (1990). Recent progress toward reducing the use of animal experimentation in biomedical research. In: Garattini, S., van Bekkum, D.W. (eds) The Importance of Animal Experimentation for Safety and Biomedical Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1904-4_24

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