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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... colony building was renovated and an additional floor placed on top of it (the colony building was stressed for an additional floor when it was built in 1922!). In 1972, the Institute was named one of the first Basic Science Cancer ...
... colony building was renovated and an additional floor placed on top of it (the colony building was stressed for an additional floor when it was built in 1922!). In 1972, the Institute was named one of the first Basic Science Cancer ...
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... colony of 400 to 600 animals he established at Hopkins in 1922 on the third floor of the Phipps Clinic. The foundation stock for this colony was albinos from the Wistar Institute. ''A few hooded, tan and black rats from the colony of ...
... colony of 400 to 600 animals he established at Hopkins in 1922 on the third floor of the Phipps Clinic. The foundation stock for this colony was albinos from the Wistar Institute. ''A few hooded, tan and black rats from the colony of ...
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... colony from which the first experiment was initiated in January 1908. The following year, in 1909, McCollum was joined by a volunteer assistant who took charge of the rat colony, Miss Marguerite Davis, a recent graduate from the ...
... colony from which the first experiment was initiated in January 1908. The following year, in 1909, McCollum was joined by a volunteer assistant who took charge of the rat colony, Miss Marguerite Davis, a recent graduate from the ...
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... colony for all investigators at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and Mendel's laboratory. It is known to have been maintained as a breeding colony of about 200 animals by Miss Edna L. Ferry (Ferry, 1919) and operated as a ...
... colony for all investigators at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and Mendel's laboratory. It is known to have been maintained as a breeding colony of about 200 animals by Miss Edna L. Ferry (Ferry, 1919) and operated as a ...
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... colony in their monograph, ''The Oestrous Cycle in the Rat and Its Associated Phenomena.'' The rats were ''descendants of a cross'' made about 1915 ''between several white females and a wild gray male caught in Berkeley.'' The following ...
... colony in their monograph, ''The Oestrous Cycle in the Rat and Its Associated Phenomena.'' The rats were ''descendants of a cross'' made about 1915 ''between several white females and a wild gray male caught in Berkeley.'' The following ...
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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