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Opening Remarks, Shin-Ichi Ota
Pages 4-5

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... Recently, biotechnology has made remarkable progress using transgenic animals, and international collaborative studies have used these animals widely. International harmonization of drug safety data for new drug development is also under way.
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... 1991. Establishment and Preservation of Reference Inbred Strains of Rats for General Purpose Use: Report on U.S.-Japan Non-Energy Research and Development Cooperation: Laboratory Animal Science.
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