Despite the accelerated development, production and process, the safety of new medicines and vaccines for patients remains of utmost priority. To make sure they are safe, animal experiments are indispensable. These allow the kind of life processes that occur in humans to be comprehended. Drug candidates are tested for safety and efficacy in preclinical studies. Toxicologists analyse them for their toxicity in order, for example, to exclude the possibility of substances causing diseases or damaging the DNA. Computer simulations are used for these studies, as are bacteria, cell and tissue cultures or isolated organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevertheless, tests with rats, mice and non-rodents are still necessary to investigate interactions in the live organism. Only in this way is it possible to determine, for example, whether a substance remains in the body long enough to achieve the desired medical effect. These standards in the testing of active substances in the animal guarantee a high degree of safety for patients. But it must be pointed out that researchers only fall back on animal experiments when they are required by law on the one hand and all other approaches have been exhausted on the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5. Why animal experiments are necessary Despite the accelerated development, production and process, the safety of new medicines and vaccines for patients remains of utmost priority. To make sure they are safe, animal experiments are indispensable. These allow the kind of life processes that occur in humans to be comprehended. Drug candidates are tested for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":932,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/unterthema.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n