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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... Cancer Research from 1913 to 1937. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.) Rohdenburg held appointments at Lenox Hill Hospital (Eisen, 1954; Moore, 1978). A major problem confronting cancer research at the time the Crocker ...
... Cancer Research from 1913 to 1937. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.) Rohdenburg held appointments at Lenox Hill Hospital (Eisen, 1954; Moore, 1978). A major problem confronting cancer research at the time the Crocker ...
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... cancer research based on the mistaken claim that gastric cancer in rats was caused by the nematode, Spiroptera carcinoma] (Fibiger, 1965; Stolley and Lasky, 1992; Wernstedt, 1965). Many years later, in 1941, an interesting group of rats ...
... cancer research based on the mistaken claim that gastric cancer in rats was caused by the nematode, Spiroptera carcinoma] (Fibiger, 1965; Stolley and Lasky, 1992; Wernstedt, 1965). Many years later, in 1941, an interesting group of rats ...
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... Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, with Alfred Gellhorn serving as chairman from 1957 to 1968. Sol Spiegelman became Director in 1968. In 1972, the program was once again reorganized as the Cancer Research Center under Paul A ...
... Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, with Alfred Gellhorn serving as chairman from 1957 to 1968. Sol Spiegelman became Director in 1968. In 1972, the program was once again reorganized as the Cancer Research Center under Paul A ...
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... Cancer Research later became the Michigan Cancer Foundation, which continued a cancer research program at the site (Dunning, 1977; Edward, 1978). C. The University of Miami and Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute For some time the ...
... Cancer Research later became the Michigan Cancer Foundation, which continued a cancer research program at the site (Dunning, 1977; Edward, 1978). C. The University of Miami and Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute For some time the ...
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... Cancer Institute began inbreeding a line of these rats in 1960; representatives were transferred to the National Institutes of Health in 1973 (Festing, 1978). Robert W. Dawley began the Sprague-Dawley stock about 1925 using females of ...
... Cancer Institute began inbreeding a line of these rats in 1960; representatives were transferred to the National Institutes of Health in 1973 (Festing, 1978). Robert W. Dawley began the Sprague-Dawley stock about 1925 using females of ...
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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