Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research : assessing the necessity /
"For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, recent advances in alternate research tools have rendered chimpanzees largely unnecessary as rese...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- SUMMARY
- STUDY BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
- Origin of Study and Committee Statement of Task
- Ethical Considerations
- METHODS AND ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
- INTERNATIONAL POLICIES GUIDING CHIMPANZEE USE
- SUMMARY OF CHIMPANZEE RESEARCH
- Analysis of Federally Supported Research
- Analysis of Private-Sector Supported Research
- Criteria That Guide the Current Use of Chimpanzees
- PRINCIPLES GUIDING THE USE OF CHIMPANZEES IN RESEARCH
- Ethologically Appropriate Physical and Social Environments
- Criteria to Assess the Necessity of the Chimpanzee for Biomedical
- Research
- Criteria for Use of the Chimpanzee in Comparative Genomics and
- Behavioral Research
- REVIEWING THE NECESSITY OF CURRENT CHIMPANZEE
- RESEARCH
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Development of Chimpanzee Monoclonal Antibodies
- Safety Testing of Monoclonal Antibody Therapies
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- HCV Antiviral Drugs
- Therapeutic HCV Vaccine
- Prophylactic HCV Vaccine
- Comparative Genomics
- Altruism
- Cognition
- FUTURE USE OF CHIMPANZEES IN BIOMEDICAL AND
- BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH 64
- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 66
- APPENDIXES
- A References
- B Commissioned Paper: Comparison of Immunity to Pathogens in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Macaques
- C Information-Gathering Agendas
- D Committee Biographies.
