
The Laboratory Rat
Description
Key Features
- New chapters on the care of surgical and fragile models and on the use of rats in research areas such as alcoholism, regenerative medicine, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and others are included.
- All chapters were written by scientific and veterinary experts.
- This book condenses information from many sources on topics related to the care and use of rats in research.
- It is the premier source of information on the laboratory rat.
Readership
Veterinarians; researchers who use rats in their experiments on aging, drug addiction, cancer, spinal cord injury, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, spontaneous diabetes, arthritis, and so on
Table of Contents
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Background of the laboratory rat
1. Historical Foundations
2. Taxonomy and Stocks and Strains
3. Translational Potential of Rats in ResearchBiology and care
4. Functional Anatomy and Physiology
5. Clinical Pathology of the Rat
6. Reproduction and Breeding
7. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Modification in Rats
8. Analysis of Behavior in Laboratory Rats
9. Nutrition
10. Housing and EnvironmentClinical care and disease
11. Medical Management and Diagnostic Approaches
12. Bacterial, Mycoplasmal, and Mycotic Infections
13. Viral Disease
14. Parasitic Diseases
15. Neoplastic Disease
16. Metabolic, Traumatic, and Miscellaneous Diseases
17. Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Euthanasia
18. Care of Surgical and Other Fragile ModelsRats as research models
19. General Experimental Techniques
20. Integrating Biology with Rat Genomic Tools
21. Gnotobiotics and the Microbiome
22. Toxicology
23. Embryology and Teratology
24. Rat Immunology
25. Cardiovascular Research
26. Rat Models of Alcohol Use Disorder
27. Rat Models of Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Diabetes
28. The Rate in Neuroscience Research
29. Rat Models of Central Nervous System Injury
30. Use of the Rat as a Model in Regenerative Medicine
31. Rat Models of Infectious Disease
Product details
- No. of pages: 1180
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: November 10, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128143384
- eBook ISBN: 9780128143391