The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) is a global resource for the development of replacement, reduction and refinement alternatives for research and testing.
The principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) were developed over 50 years ago providing a framework for performing more humane animal research.
A free, web search system that provides access to the structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP), an interagency program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates and identifies the health effects of select substances which could be hazardous to humans. In other words, NTP studies the toxicology of these test substances.
IACUC.ORG is an information resource for members and staff of institutional animal care and use committees. It is a link archive where online resources are organized by menus and submenus. IACUC.ORG was developed as an organizational tool to quickly point to a topic of interest, such as protocol forms or disaster plans used by different institutions.
