Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine

Aims & Scope

Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine(ISSN 1674-5817; CN 31-1954/Q) is the first professional academic journal in the field of laboratory animal science and technology in China. The journal is founded in 1981,firstly named asShanghai Livestock and Veterinary Newsletters - Experimental Animal Science.In 1984, it was renamed asShanghai Experimental Animal Science, and in 2005 it was renamed to the current title. The columns include Perspective, Original Research Article, Review, Experience, Policy and Regulation, Practice and Exploration, Standard and Guideline, Newsletter and Book Review, Case Report, Personage, In Brief etc. The aimed readers are practitioners in scientific research, education and medicine engaged in the production, breeding, detection and management of laboratory animals in the fields of biology, medicine, pharmacy, zoology and agronomy. The journal is supervised Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, and co-sponsored by Shanghai Laboratory Animals Science Association and Shanghai Laboratory Animal Research Center. The following experts used to be our editors: Prof. Harry Rozmiarek (the United States), Prof. Timothy H Morris (the United Kingdom), Kathryn Bayne (the United States), David Piper (the United Kingdom) and Judy MacArthur Clark (the United Kingdom). The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Wang Jian, Honorary Editor-in-Chief is Professor LI Jinsong (an academician of CAS in China), and the Executive Chief Editor is Professor WU Baojin. The journal is bimonthlypublished in Chinese (including English abstracts and charts), which is openly published domestically and internationally.Now the journal is indexed by the Key Magazine of China Technology, SCOPUS (Netherlands), Chemical Abstracts (USA), Ulrichsweb (USA), CAB Abstracts (UK), Global Health (UK), ICI World of Journals (PL), ICI Master List (PL), DOAJ (SE), EBSCO (USA), WPRIM (WHO), the Chinese Core Journal Database, the Chinese Scientific and Technological Journal Database, S

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