Reprint: Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench.

Journal article

As a research community, we have failed to demonstrate that drugs that show substantial efficacy in animal models of cerebral ischemia can also improve outcome in human stroke. Accumulating evidence suggests that this may be due, at least in part, to problems in the design, conduct and reporting of animal experiments, which create a systematic bias resulting in the overstatement of neuroprotective efficacy. Here, we set out a series of measures to reduce bias in the design, conduct and reporting of animal experiments modeling human stroke.

Authors: Macleod, MR; Fisher, M; O'Collins, V; Sena, E; Dirnagl, U

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-5
• Publication date: 2009-02-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2009.00241.x
• EISSN: 1747-4949
• ISSN: 1747-4930
• Language: English
• Keywords: Neuroprotective Agents; Animals; Bias (Epidemiology); Research Design; Guidelines as Topic; Biomedical Research; Disease Models, Animal; Stroke; Humans