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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... Selection was made to retain or acquire characteristics of high lactation, rapid growth, vigor, good temperament, and high resistance to arsenic trioxide. Mr. Dawley died in 1949. His original company became the ARS/Sprague-Dawley ...
... Selection was made to retain or acquire characteristics of high lactation, rapid growth, vigor, good temperament, and high resistance to arsenic trioxide. Mr. Dawley died in 1949. His original company became the ARS/Sprague-Dawley ...
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... selected out of the wild Norways trapped around Philadelphia about 1930 and inbred for a while by King (Annual Reports of the Director, 1911–1956; Billingham and Silvers, 1959). Hunt at Michigan State University in 1937 initiated ...
... selected out of the wild Norways trapped around Philadelphia about 1930 and inbred for a while by King (Annual Reports of the Director, 1911–1956; Billingham and Silvers, 1959). Hunt at Michigan State University in 1937 initiated ...
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... selected strains of rodents at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland (Heston et al., 1953). At the time, George E. Jay, Jr. was geneticist and Samuel E. Poiley was animal husbandman. By 1953, seven inbred strains of rats had been established ...
... selected strains of rodents at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland (Heston et al., 1953). At the time, George E. Jay, Jr. was geneticist and Samuel E. Poiley was animal husbandman. By 1953, seven inbred strains of rats had been established ...
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... Selected Works of Henry Clapp Sherman.'' Macmillan, New York. Anonymous. (1962). ''The National Cyclopaedia of ... selection, a correction. Am. Nat. 53, 370–375. Castle, W.E. (1924). ''Genetics and Eugenics.'' Harvard Univ. Press ...
... Selected Works of Henry Clapp Sherman.'' Macmillan, New York. Anonymous. (1962). ''The National Cyclopaedia of ... selection, a correction. Am. Nat. 53, 370–375. Castle, W.E. (1924). ''Genetics and Eugenics.'' Harvard Univ. Press ...
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... selection, on the sex ratio of the albino rat. J. Exp. Zool. 27, 1–35. King, H.D. (1919). Studies on inbreeding. IV. A further study of the effects of inbreeding on the growth and variability in the body weight of the albino rat. J. Exp ...
... selection, on the sex ratio of the albino rat. J. Exp. Zool. 27, 1–35. King, H.D. (1919). Studies on inbreeding. IV. A further study of the effects of inbreeding on the growth and variability in the body weight of the albino rat. J. Exp ...
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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