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Euthanasia means a gentle death and should be regarded as an act of a human method of sacrificing an animal with a minimum of physical and mental suffering. The method of euthanasia should be appropriate for the species and the age of the animals. The method should be painless, avoid excitement, and achieve rapid unconsciousness and death. Additionally, the method should be reliable, reproducible, and irreversible.
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Herling, A.W. (2014). Euthanasia of Experimental Animals. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_134-1
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