http://www.altwebsearch.org/aadb/aadb_search.cfm
In a collaborative effort, the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University and the Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) recently developed a bibliographic database on pain management in research animals. Entitled t he Altweb Pain Management Database, it provides information about anesthesia and analgesia for the most commonly used species of animals in research, including rodents, cats, dogs, sheep, pigs, fish, and non-human primates. The database also covers dose i nformation and side effects of commonly used drugs. It is updated quarterly and includes information from 1990 to the present. Almost all of the records—98%—have abstracts. Database records have been drawn from other research databases including : MEDLINE (which includes TOXLINE records), AGRICOLA, and AGRIS.
This database includes information about anesthesia and analgesia for most commonly used laboratory animals, including: rats, mice, primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, guinea pigs, birds, sheep, fish, and exotic species. It provides information about available drugs and the side effects of commonly used drugs. Citations are from publications that have published laboratory animal studies or human clinical studies with relevance to animal research.
The database offers several fields for searching: author, title, source (journal), and descriptors. You may search by kind of animal, by drug, or by procedure. The database uses the common chemical name for all drugs. This database contains approximat ely 10,000 records.
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