Preclinical studies on pharmacokinetics in animals usually require at least 3-5 animals per time point. The use of several animals in each time point may increase the result variation due to individual dosing errors and inter-and intraindividual variation among animals. Moreover, a large number of animals has to be euthanized in these experiments.
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Hassan et al. (2008) studied this question.