Animals, Alternatives, and Humans: Solving Problems through Research in the U.S. Air Force
Abstract
Research using living systems, including whole living animals, has proved essential and invaluable in support of USAF operations. The USAF is aggressively seeking alternatives to animal research that we can integrate into our research programs. In the near future, we expect to make rapid advances in developing, as alternative cell culture techniques, mechanical surrogates and mathematical models. We will continue to use limited numbers of live animals in our research program, particularly where data from mathematical models are not reliable. But as we advance our techniques in using research animals with more and better chronic animal preparations, superior imaging methods and improved data extrapolation techniques, each animal study will-require fewer laboratory animals. Of course, the human volunteer is the experimental subject of choice; thus, as non-invasive data collection techniques improve, the human will replace laboratory animals in even more of our biological research. Animal research,
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA279677
Entities
People
- Russell R. Burton
Organizations
- Armstrong Laboratory