Specification of laboratory animal use in scientific articles: current low detail in the journals' instructions for authors and some proposals.

摘要: SUMMARY The scientific article communicates results of research to other investigators; therefore, it must contain a complete description the experiment help researchers when designing their future investigations. However, poorly detailed data on laboratory animal use is given in published articles. Despite well-known and important contribution International Committee Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) standardize writing submission manuscripts biomedical journals, no specific instructions reporting are ICMJE Uniform Requirements and, most journals do not detail this authors. Individual efforts from groups like Working for Biological Characterizations Laboratory Animals, Boyd Group, or Publication Ethics commendable. These contributions should be incorporated into later, Instructions Authors peer-reviewed journals. This would only efficient way instruct authors how report submitted manuscripts. present relates some proposals helping based previous guidelines specifications, but also specialized Animal Science. classified major minor issues, they located corresponding parts article, as defined by Introduction, Methods, Results,