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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... inbred at Wistar by Margaret Reed Lewis; in 1956, this strain reached its eighth generation of inbreeding. King also captured some wild Norways in the vicinity of Philadelphia and proceeded to produce an inbred strain of them. By 1934 ...
... inbred at Wistar by Margaret Reed Lewis; in 1956, this strain reached its eighth generation of inbreeding. King also captured some wild Norways in the vicinity of Philadelphia and proceeded to produce an inbred strain of them. By 1934 ...
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... inbred rat colony at the Crocker Institute of Cancer Research. (Courtesy of Dr. W.F. Dunning.) lived much longer, and Bullock and Curtis reported their first successes in producing sarcomas in 1920 (Bullock and Curtis, 1920). The ...
... inbred rat colony at the Crocker Institute of Cancer Research. (Courtesy of Dr. W.F. Dunning.) lived much longer, and Bullock and Curtis reported their first successes in producing sarcomas in 1920 (Bullock and Curtis, 1920). The ...
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... INBRED STRAINS OF RATS ORIGINATED AT THE CROCKER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Generations of Strain Date of first mating brotherÂsister matings in 1953a Fischer 230 Sept. 1920 49 Fischer 344 Sept. 1920 51 Zimmerman 61 June ...
... INBRED STRAINS OF RATS ORIGINATED AT THE CROCKER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Generations of Strain Date of first mating brotherÂsister matings in 1953a Fischer 230 Sept. 1920 49 Fischer 344 Sept. 1920 51 Zimmerman 61 June ...
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... inbred rat colony. W. C. Rappleye, the Dean of Medicine, made serious efforts to relocate the colony to a farm site, but these attempts proved unsuccessful. Thus, the environment for continued research at Columbia became unacceptable to ...
... inbred rat colony. W. C. Rappleye, the Dean of Medicine, made serious efforts to relocate the colony to a farm site, but these attempts proved unsuccessful. Thus, the environment for continued research at Columbia became unacceptable to ...
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... inbred rats to the University of Miami. The rats were placed in wooden cheese boxes ''Building No. 29,'' on the South Campus of the University of Miami (Florida). After the inbred rats from Columbia had been moved to Michigan in 1941 ...
... inbred rats to the University of Miami. The rats were placed in wooden cheese boxes ''Building No. 29,'' on the South Campus of the University of Miami (Florida). After the inbred rats from Columbia had been moved to Michigan in 1941 ...
Contents
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5Clinical Pathology of the Rat | 127 |
6 Reproduction and Breeding | 147 |
7 Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Modifications in Rats | 165 |
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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