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Abreu, Luiz Carlos de

Valenti, Vitor Engrácia

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Valenti, Vitor Engrácia [UNIFESP]

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127Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc 2010; 25(1): 127-131RBCCV 44205-1164Letters to the EditorQuotation of article in Brazilian Journal ofCardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS)Dear Dr. Braile,All through the year we are glad for having intellectualcontributions published in BJCS, which you managehonorably. Therefore, we would like to wish you and theEditorial Board success in 2010 and may good publicationsflourish abundantly.Furthermore, we would like to report the paper from TangXN, Yenari MA. Hypothermia as a cytoprotective strategyin ischemic tissue injury. Ageing Research Reviews.2010;9(1):61-8, which refers to an article of our grouppublished in BJCS (Meneghini A, Ferreira C, Abreu LC,Ferreira M, Ferreira Filho C, Valenti VE, Murad N. Cold stresseffects on cardiomyocytes nuclear size in rats: lightmicroscopic evaluation. BJCS. 2008;23(4):530-3).We hope we can contribute with more publicationsthroughout the year.Best regards.Prof. Dr. Luiz Carlos de Abreu – Physiology - Faculdadede Medicina do ABC, São Paulo/SPVitor Engrácia Valenti – PhD student in Cardiology atUNIFESP/EPM, São Paulo/SPTrends in animal experimentation   ”...The conscious admiration and the respect for thecreation - of which the man is, at the same time, part andsubject, will inspire him with respect and consideration thathe owes to his similar, because that is its logical conclusion.”(Carlos B. G. Petcotche)  Comments on the study “Trends in animalexperimentation” authored by Full Professor RosangelaMonteiro, published in issue 24.4 of the Brazilian Journalof Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS).[1]The activity of experimental surgery encompassestraining in surgery and work in scientific research. In thesechanging times, on which the “learning curve” of the surgeonin training is no longer permissible, the learning in qualitylaboratory becomes an issue of renewed importance. [2,3]I sought data from published literature on experimentalsurgery in the Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeonsin the years 2007 and 2008, highlighting the periodicity ofthe journal, its indexing (Latindex, LILACS and SciELO,Scopus, DOAJ and “Free Medical Journals”) its circulation(5000 copies) and also because they cover studies in thearea of surgery as primary focus. In that period assessed,177 were original articles and 21 approached experimentalstudy (11.86%). It was observed that in four (19.04%) therecords of the study on the ethics committee were cited(date and registration number).Animal experimentation should follow therecommendations of the “3 Rs”, proposed by Russell andBurch (1959): reduction (reduced number of animals underexperimentation), refinement (relief of pain and stress, andincreasing the welfare of animals under experimentation)and replacement (replacement of animals in research forsimulators) [4]. In an editorial, Goldenberg (2007) alsohighlights three important principles in animalexperimentation: gain experience does not mean to causeinjury, the practice of art and science must come togetherand publishing of the experimental study, because non-published knowledge is a lack of knowledge [5].Regarding an editorial trend to be followed in studieson the experimental surgeries published by BJCVS inspecies of the phylum Chordata and subphylum Vertebrata,one should contain the recommendations similar to thosefrom the Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira( www.sobradpec.org.br ):1. following the precepts of the Brazilian College ofAnimal Experimentation - COBEA (www.cobea.org.br);2. requesting a copy of the study protocol submitted tothe Ethics Committee of the Institution on which the studywas performed, as well as presenting these data attached tothe Method, when submitting the study to the editor of BJCVS.Not all ethical issues of the experimental study can beresolved with the recommendations above, but they would

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