21. The Importance of Animals in Research (Foundation for Biomedical Research, 818 Connecticut Ave., Suite 303, NW, Washington, DC 20006, (202)-457-0659).
This is a series of leaflets, each addressing -- on glossy paper -- the value of a separate animal and including references to work cited. Among the leaflets are "Rats and Research," "Mice and Research," "Rabbits and Research," "Cats and Research," "Dogs and Research," "Primates and Research," and "Other Animals and Research." The last named, for example, details how pigs were used in developing the CAT scan, how sheep have been used for kidney failure studies, how ferrets were of value in studies of the influenza virus, how woodchucks have provided data on human liver cancer (because woodchucks and humans have similar hepatitis viruses), and how armadillos are the only animals besides primates and mice in which the leprosy bacillus grows. Lobsters have only 30 neurons instead of 10-100 trillion, so they are being used to study motor coordination.
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