Preclinical drug development: Seeking to improve the reproducibility of results from behavioural experiments in animals.

Eur Neuropsychopharmacol

Department of Pharmacology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Bizkaia, Spain. Electronic address:

Published: March 2025

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