Siavash Ahmadi-Noorbakhsh, Mohammad Farajli Abbasi, Maedeh Ghasemi, Gholamreza Bayat, Nahid Davoodian, Ehsan Sharif-Paghaleh, Seyedeh Mahsa Poormoosavi, Melika Rafizadeh, Maryam Maleki, Hesamaddin Shirzad-Aski, Hossein Kargar Jahromi, Masoomeh Dadkhah, Bahman Khalvati, Tahereh Safari, Mohammad Amin Behmanesh, Seyed Esmaeil Khoshnam, Gholamreza Houshmand, Sayyed Alireza Talaei
Anesthesia and analgesia are major components of many interventional studies on laboratory animals. However, various studies have shown improper reporting or use of anesthetics/analgesics in research proposals and published articles. In many cases, it seems "anesthesia" and "analgesia" are used interchangeably, while they are referring to two different concepts. Not only this is an unethical practice, but also it may be one of the reasons for the proven suboptimal quality of many animal researches. This is a widespread problem among investigations on various species of animals...
December 13, 2022: Laboratory Animal Research