Declining Experimental Skills Among Physiologists.

The practice of Clinical Physiology requires some basic physiological facts that can be translated into application. Maintaining a continuous development of Clinical Physiology would require regular experimentation on basic issues involving animals. With reference to the value of animal research an important statement has been published by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (1) – “It must be emphasised that use of animals in research is inevitable and cannot be abandoned in the interest of human and animal welfare. Animal experimentation is necessary at the current level of knowledge for studying the pathogenesis of different disease, undertake drug trials, and generate a variety of biologicals such as immuno-diagnostics, vaccines to alleviate suffering in the human and animals themselves”. Thus, it is needless to say that the animal experimentation is important for generating basic knowledge.