THE IMPORTANCE OF ANIMAL RESEARCH

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Term Paper Title	THE IMPORTANCE OF ANIMAL RESEARCH
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ANIMAL RESEARCH

        Research on animals is important in understanding diseases and

developing ways to prevent them.  The polio vaccine, kidney transplants,

and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the help of

animal research.  Through increased efforts by the scientific community,

effective treatments for diabetes, diphtheria, and other diseases have been

developed with animal testing.

        Animal research has brought a dramatic progress into medicine.

With the help of animal research, smallpox has been wiped out worldwide.

Micro-surgery to reattach hearts, lungs, and other transplants are all

possible because of animal research.  Since the turn of the century,

animal research has helped increase our life-span by nearly 28 years.

And now, animal research is leading to dramatic progress against AIDS and

Alzheimer's disease.

        Working with animals in research is necessary.  Scientists need to

test medical treatments for effectiveness and test new drugs for safety

before beginning human testing.  Small animals, usually rats, are used to

determine the possible side effects of new drugs.  After animal tests have

proven the safety of new drugs, patients asked to participate in further

studies can be assured that they may fare better, and will not do worse

than if they were given standard treatment or no treatment.

        New surgical techniques first must be carefully developed and

tested in living, breathing, whole organ systems with pulmonary and

circulatory systems much like ours.  The doctors who perform today's

delicate cardiac, ear, eye, pulmonary and brain surgeries, as well as

doctors in training, must develop the necessary skills before patients'

lives are entrusted to their care.  Neither computer models, cell cultures,

nor artificial substances can simulate flesh, muscle, blood, and organs like

the ones in live animals.

        There is no alternative to animal research.  Living systems are

complex.  The nervous system, blood and brain chemistry, and gland

secretions are all interrelated.  It is impossible to explore, explain or

predict the course of many diseases or the effects of many treatments

without observing and testing the entire living system.

        Cell and tissue cultures, often suggested as "alternatives" to using

animals, have been used in medical research for many years.  But these are

only isolated tests. ...

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