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Operant Protocols for Assessing the Cost-benefit Analysis During Reinforced Decision Making by Rodents
Published on: September 10, 2018
Food for thought... on the economics of animal testing
Annamaria A Bottini1, Thomas Hartung
1EU Join Research Centre, ISD/TRiVA unit, Ispra, Italy.
ALTEX
|March 28, 2009
Abstract
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