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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... Associated Phenomena'' (Long and Evans, 1922). Their collaboration was essentially over, but a monumental legacy had been given to endocrinology and reproductive physiology (Bennett, 1975; Friends of H. M. Evans, 1943; Gorski and Whalen ...
... Associated Phenomena'' (Long and Evans, 1922). Their collaboration was essentially over, but a monumental legacy had been given to endocrinology and reproductive physiology (Bennett, 1975; Friends of H. M. Evans, 1943; Gorski and Whalen ...
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... associated structures extend as a chain between the sternum and the scapula in the following order: osmosternum, proximal procoracoid piece, clavicle, distal procoracoid piece. Of these, the clavicle and the osmosternum are ossified and ...
... associated structures extend as a chain between the sternum and the scapula in the following order: osmosternum, proximal procoracoid piece, clavicle, distal procoracoid piece. Of these, the clavicle and the osmosternum are ossified and ...
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... Associated with Special Senses 1. Sight and the Eye In general, the eye of the rat is typical of the mammalian eye, but the rat eye is exophthalmic. The cornea consists of five layers and is approximately 6.80 þ 0.2 mm in diameter in ...
... Associated with Special Senses 1. Sight and the Eye In general, the eye of the rat is typical of the mammalian eye, but the rat eye is exophthalmic. The cornea consists of five layers and is approximately 6.80 þ 0.2 mm in diameter in ...
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... associated with acute hearing; the rostral pair is associated with vision. The most caudal portion of the brain is composed of the medulla oblongata as it tapers back into the spinal cord. On the ventral aspect of the brain are the ...
... associated with acute hearing; the rostral pair is associated with vision. The most caudal portion of the brain is composed of the medulla oblongata as it tapers back into the spinal cord. On the ventral aspect of the brain are the ...
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... associated with large granular lymphocyte leukemia of F344 rats or other neoplasias (Stromberg et al., 1983a). The morphology of IMHA is typical of that for other species with spherocytes, other poikilocytes, and rouleaux or ...
... associated with large granular lymphocyte leukemia of F344 rats or other neoplasias (Stromberg et al., 1983a). The morphology of IMHA is typical of that for other species with spherocytes, other poikilocytes, and rouleaux or ...
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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