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Review
. 1997:80 Suppl 2:3-4.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1997.tb01980.x.

The Göttingen minipig in pharmacology and toxicology

P Bollen, L Ellegaard
Review

The Göttingen minipig in pharmacology and toxicology

P Bollen et al. Pharmacol Toxicol. 1997.

Abstract

Pigs traditionally are used in surgical and physiological research. Since the development of the Minnesota minipig in 1949 at the Hormel Institute (USA), miniature pigs have been introduced as a model in pharmacology and toxicology, because of scientific, economic and ethical reasons.

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