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The laboratory rat

This 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. * At least 50% new information than first edition * Includes topics on rat genetics and genomics, occupational health, and experimental models * The premier source of information on the laboratory rat
eBook, English, ©2006
Elsevier, Amsterdam, ©2006
1 online resource (xvi, 912 pages) : illustrations
9780120749034, 9780080454320, 0120749033, 0080454321
162569241
Historical foundations / J. Russell Lindsey and Henry J. Baker
Ethical and legal perspectives / Beverly J. Gnadt
Taxonomy and stocks and strains / Hans J. Hedrich
Morphophysiology / John Hofstetter, Mark A. Suckow, and Debra L. Hickman
Clinical pathology of the rat / Bruce D. Car [and others]
Reproduction and breeding / Jeffrey J. Lohmiller and Sonya P. Swing
Assisted reproductive technologies and genetic modifications in rats / Yuksel Agca and John K. Critser
Analysis of behavior in laboratory rats / Ian Q. Whishaw [and others]
Nutrition / Sherry M. Lewis [and others]
Housing and environment / Robert E. Faith and Jack R. Hessler
Bacterial, mycoplasmal and mycotic infections / Steven H. Weisbroth, Dannis F. Kohn, and Ron Boot
Viral disease / Robert O. Jacoby and Diane J. Gaertner
Parasitic diseases / David G. Baker
Neoplastic disease / Gary A. Boorman and Jeffrey I. Everitt
Metabolic, traumatic, and miscellaneous diseases / William W. King and Steven P. Russell. Anesthesia and Surgery
Assisted Reproduction
Bacterial and Mycotic Disease
Behavior and Behavioral Analysis
Cardiovascular Research
Embryology and Teratology
Euthanasia and Necropsy
Experimental Modeling and Research Methodology
Gerontology and Age-Associated Lesions
Gnotobiology
Health Surveillance
Hematology and Clinical Biochemistry
Historical Foundations
Housing and Environment
Immunology
Legal and Ethical Perspectives
Medical Management and Diagnostic approaches
Metabolic, Traumatic and Miscellaneous Disease
Morphophysiology
Neoplastic Disease
Nutrition
Occupational Health
Parasitic Disease
Reproduction and Breeding
Spontaneous and Induced Mutants
Taxonomy
Toxicology
Transgenics, Phenotyping and the Rat Genome
Viral Disease
Wild and Black Rats
Wild and Miscellaneous "Rats."
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