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Animals, Laboratory

Laboratory animals are non-human species kept and used under controlled conditions for scientific research, testing, and education. Models including rodents such as mice and rats, and other species such as guinea pigs, allow investigators to study physiology, disease mechanisms, and the safety and efficacy of interv…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 22× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-2275 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Laboratory animals are non-human species kept and used under controlled conditions for scientific research, testing, and education. Models including rodents such as mice and rats, and other species such as guinea pigs, allow investigators to study physiology, disease mechanisms, and the safety and efficacy of interventions in whole, living systems where human or field study would be impractical or unethical. Their value rests on biological similarity to the processes under study and the ability to control variables, while their use is governed by ethical principles that emphasise replacement, reduction, and refinement and the welfare of the animals. The research gathered here illustrates the experimental roles laboratory animals serve. Toxicology and drug-safety studies use animal models to evaluate the effects and hazards of substances, including investigations of neurotoxicity and oxidative stress in the rodent brain. Inflammation and disease models feature in work using rats to examine systemic inflammatory responses and tissue injury, and guinea pigs in experimental infection and nutrition studies. Other contributions employ animal models to test physiological and dietary interventions and to study organ injury and repair. Together these works reflect the central place of laboratory animals in biomedical and veterinary science as controlled systems through which mechanisms are probed and the effects of treatments are assessed, within an ethical framework for their care and use.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

The antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities of two tea polysaccharides

Yu ZhiCorresponding author
College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, No. 1 Shizishan Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China 430070
Antioxidant Activity Cited by 5 doi:10.14302/issn.2471-2140.jaa-17-1541

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 22 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Zoological Research (ISSN 2694-2275).

Journal editorial board
Alexander Ereskovsky · France ANDREI ALIMOV · Russia

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