Guidance on the planning and reporting of experimental design and analysis

Michael J Curtis¹, Stephen P H Alexander², Miriam Cortese-Krott^{3

4}, David A Kendall², Kirill A Martemyanov⁵, Claudio Mauro⁶, Reynold A Panettieri Jr⁷, Andreas Papapetropoulos^{8

9}, Hemal H Patel¹⁰, Evan E Santo¹¹, Rainer Schulz¹², Barbara Stefanska¹³, Gary J Stephens¹⁴, Mauro M Teixeira¹⁵, Nathalie Vergnolle¹⁶, Xin Wang¹⁷, Péter Ferdinandy^{11

18

19}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
² University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
³ Myocardial Infarction Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, Pneumology, Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁴ CARID, Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Department of Neuroscience, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, University of Florida, Jupiter, Florida, USA.
⁶ College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁷ Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
⁸ Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁹ Clinical Experimental Surgery and Translational Research Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
¹⁰ VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California/San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
¹² University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
¹³ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁴ University of Reading, Reading, UK.
¹⁵ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁶ IRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
¹⁷ Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
¹⁸ Center for Pharmacology and Drug Development, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁹ Pharmahungary Group, Szeged, Hungary.

PMID: 39865712
DOI: 10.1111/bph.17441

Editorial

Guidance on the planning and reporting of experimental design and analysis

Michael J Curtis et al. Br J Pharmacol. 2025 Apr.

. 2025 Apr;182(7):1413-1415.

doi: 10.1111/bph.17441. Epub 2025 Jan 26.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
² University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
³ Myocardial Infarction Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, Pneumology, Angiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁴ CARID, Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Department of Neuroscience, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, University of Florida, Jupiter, Florida, USA.
⁶ College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁷ Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
⁸ Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁹ Clinical Experimental Surgery and Translational Research Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
¹⁰ VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California/San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
¹² University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
¹³ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁴ University of Reading, Reading, UK.
¹⁵ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁶ IRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
¹⁷ Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
¹⁸ Center for Pharmacology and Drug Development, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁹ Pharmahungary Group, Szeged, Hungary.

PMID: 39865712
DOI: 10.1111/bph.17441

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