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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... fed wheat alone but high in those fed meat. It appears that the majority of early investigators to use rats in nutrition research were interested in dietary proteins and growth (Verzar, 1973). Their choice of the rat as an experimental ...
... fed wheat alone but high in those fed meat. It appears that the majority of early investigators to use rats in nutrition research were interested in dietary proteins and growth (Verzar, 1973). Their choice of the rat as an experimental ...
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... rats in small boxes and to feed each a piece of dry bread and some vegetable (their sole source of water) every day. Curtis instituted an improved caging system and the practice of dipping the bread in whole milk before it was fed ...
... rats in small boxes and to feed each a piece of dry bread and some vegetable (their sole source of water) every day. Curtis instituted an improved caging system and the practice of dipping the bread in whole milk before it was fed ...
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... Rodents. National Cancer Institute Monograph 20, 180 p. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Hoppert, C.A., Webber, P.A., and Conniff, T.L. (1932). The production of dental caries in rats fed an adequate diet. J. Dent. Res ...
... Rodents. National Cancer Institute Monograph 20, 180 p. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Hoppert, C.A., Webber, P.A., and Conniff, T.L. (1932). The production of dental caries in rats fed an adequate diet. J. Dent. Res ...
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... Rats have proven a valuable species for the development of heart-specific biomarkers. Skeletal muscle lesions occur in rats given high doses of HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (e.g., cerivastatin), but this is a relatively unusual finding ...
... Rats have proven a valuable species for the development of heart-specific biomarkers. Skeletal muscle lesions occur in rats given high doses of HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (e.g., cerivastatin), but this is a relatively unusual finding ...
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... rats given tri-iodothyronine or/and growth hormone. J. Endocrinol. 142, 77–84. Wan Nazaimoon, W.M., and Khalid, B.A. (2002). Tocotrienols-rich diet decreases advanced glycosylation end-products in non-diabetic rats and improves glycemic ...
... rats given tri-iodothyronine or/and growth hormone. J. Endocrinol. 142, 77–84. Wan Nazaimoon, W.M., and Khalid, B.A. (2002). Tocotrienols-rich diet decreases advanced glycosylation end-products in non-diabetic rats and improves glycemic ...
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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