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Editorial
. 2024 Jun 25:18:1431310.
doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1431310. eCollection 2024.

Editorial: Animal-friendly methods for rodent behavioral testing in neuroscience research

Raffaele d'Isa  1 , Stefania Fasano  2 , Riccardo Brambilla  2   3
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Editorial: Animal-friendly methods for rodent behavioral testing in neuroscience research

Raffaele d'Isa et al. Front Behav Neurosci. .
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Keywords: animal welfare; animal-friendly testing; behavioral testing; refinement; rodents.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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Number of publications mentioning “animal welfare”. (A) Number of articles, listed in the PubMed database, mentioning the phrase “animal welfare”, per decade (from the 1940s, when the first article employed the phrase, to the 1980s). (B) Number of articles, listed in the PubMed database, mentioning the phrase “animal welfare”, per year (from 1980 to 2023).
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