The Laboratory RatMark A. Suckow, Steven H. Weisbroth, Craig L. Franklin Elsevier, 2005 M12 20 - 928 pages The Laboratory Rat, Second Edition features updated information on a variety of topics including: rat genetics and genomics, both spontaneous and induced disease; state-of-the-art technology for housing and husbandry; occupational health, and experimental models. A premier source of information on the laboratory rat that will be of interest to veterinary and medical students, senior graduate, graduate students, post-docs and researchers who utilize animals in biomedical research.
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... important animal models for studying physiological processes and can be used to study virtually every organ system ... importance of the rat to biomedical research by reviewing some of the burgeoning resources, specific to the use of ...
... important animal models for studying physiological processes and can be used to study virtually every organ system ... importance of the rat to biomedical research by reviewing some of the burgeoning resources, specific to the use of ...
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... important details already have been lost). Second, it is predominantly an American story, as most of the strains of rats in use today around the world trace their ancestry to stocks in the United States. Third, the story is literally ...
... important details already have been lost). Second, it is predominantly an American story, as most of the strains of rats in use today around the world trace their ancestry to stocks in the United States. Third, the story is literally ...
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... importance: gliadin (wheat) and zein (corn). These studies were summarized in his renowned monograph entitled ''The ... important collaborative studies with L. B. Mendel. Lafayette Benedict Mendel (1872–1935) (Fig. 1-22) was a native of ...
... importance: gliadin (wheat) and zein (corn). These studies were summarized in his renowned monograph entitled ''The ... important collaborative studies with L. B. Mendel. Lafayette Benedict Mendel (1872–1935) (Fig. 1-22) was a native of ...
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... important variable in use of the rat in nutrition research, and this prompted subsequent investigators in the field to house their rats on wire floors (McCollum, 1957). Osborne and Mendel's work with rats also provided important ...
... important variable in use of the rat in nutrition research, and this prompted subsequent investigators in the field to house their rats on wire floors (McCollum, 1957). Osborne and Mendel's work with rats also provided important ...
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... important source of vitamin A and to show that it was curative of xerophthalmia in deficient rats and children (Osborne and Mendel, 1914). Along with McCollum's group, they did considerable work with the ''water-soluble B'' vitamins. In ...
... important source of vitamin A and to show that it was curative of xerophthalmia in deficient rats and children (Osborne and Mendel, 1914). Along with McCollum's group, they did considerable work with the ''water-soluble B'' vitamins. In ...
Contents
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8 Analysis of Behavior in Laboratory Rats | 191 |
9 Nutrition | 219 |
18 Experimental Modeling and Research Methodology | 587 |
19 Anesthesia and Analgesia | 627 |
20 Euthanasia and Necropsy | 665 |
21 Integrating Biology with Rat Genomic Tools | 679 |
22 Gnotobiotics | 693 |
23 Spontaneous Surgically and Chemically Induced Models of Disease | 711 |
24 The Nude Rat | 733 |
25 Gerontology and AgeAssociated Lesions | 761 |
10 Housing and Environment | 303 |
11 Bacterial Mycoplasmal and Mycotic Infections | 339 |
12 Viral Disease | 423 |
13 Parasitic Diseases | 453 |
14 Neoplastic Disease | 479 |
15 Metabolic Traumatic and Miscellaneous Diseases | 513 |
16 Medical Management and Diagnostic Approaches | 547 |
17 Occupational Health and Safety | 565 |
26 Cardiovascular Research | 773 |
27 Toxicology | 803 |
28 Embryology and Teratology | 817 |
29 Immunology | 847 |
30 Wild and Black Rats | 865 |
Appendix 1 Selected Normative Data | 883 |
Index | 885 |
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