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Hace unos días se publicó el corto "#SaveRalph" de Spencer Susser con el objetivo concientizar y detener las pruebas de cosméticos en animales

Esto ha desatado nuevamente la polémica sobre el uso de animales en investigación

¿Qué dice la evidencia científica?

Abro 🧵

1/12
Si bien estoy de acuerdo con que ponerle a conejos productos de belleza en los ojos suena bastante cruel, no sería tan fácil sustituir la #InvestigaciónEnAnimales en otras áreas como el desarrollo de terapias contra el cáncer o enfermedades autoinmunes 🐀🐁

2/12

#Ciencia
Un argumento usado frecuentemente es "que usen reos o voluntarios" sin embargo, dejando de lado las cuestiones éticas, estos sujetos no serían adecuados para muchos protocolos 🙅🏻‍♀️

3/12

#SaveRalph
#InvestigacionCientifica
#AnimalesDeLaboratorio
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"Further validation of the affective bias test for predicting antidepressant and pro-depressant risk: effects of pharmacological and social manipulations in male and female rats" @Dr_Hinch @doctmcgee link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Summary: #pharmacology #affectivebias #depression #animalmodels #affectivestate #malesandfemales #ABT
The need for a reliable and #translational tool measuring emotional behaviours in animals that possessing robust validity is unquestionably important but 1/
but very challenging to achieve. Commonly used assays are generally lacking in at least one aspect of #validity and do not fully translate into #clinical work. In this paper, the affective bias test (ABT) has demonstrated to reliably detect both positive 2/
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