Sharp / Villano The Laboratory Rat

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4398-2986-8
Verlag: CRC PR INC

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Beschreibung

Rats have long been recognized as a valuable biomedical research model, notably in the investigation of aging, toxicology, addiction, and common human diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In many instances, individuals conducting such research studies are charged with important responsibilities, including animal facility management, animal husbandry, veterinary care, regulatory compliance, and various experimental methodologies. With the advent of genetic manipulations and biomedical research technological advances such as bioimaging, the versatility and usefulness of the rat as an animal model has soared.

The Laboratory Rat, Second Edition captures the multiple advances in this important animal model’s husbandry, veterinary care, and experimental methodology. This edition features augmented, expanded, and novel information on biology, anesthesia, analgesia, and experimental techniques benefiting personnel working with rats—from the animal care staff to the researcher and everyone in between. The book is also extremely useful to institutional animal care and use program supporters and elements, including animal care and use committees, institutional officials, occupational health and safety professionals, veterinary technicians, and veterinarians.

Autoren

Autoren

Sharp, Patrick

Villano, Jason S.

Über den Autor

Sharp, Patrick
Patrick E. Sharp is the Director of the Comparative Medicine Centre at the National University of Singapore. Jason Villano is with the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Important Biological FeaturesIntroductionNomenclatureBehaviorAnatomical and Physiological FeaturesHematology and Clinical ChemistryReproductionHusbandryHousingEnvironmental EnrichmentNutritionSanitation and Sanitation MonitoringTransportationQuality ControlIdentification and RecordsManagementOverviewSelect Regulatory Agencies and ComplianceVoluntary AccreditationOccupational Health/Zoonotic DiseasesVeterinary CareClinical HistoryPhysical ExaminationDiagnostic ImagingDiseases of RatsDisease Prevention, Treatment, and ControlDetecting and Preventing Infectious DiseaseAnesthesia and AnalgesiaAseptic SurgeryEuthanasiaNecropsyExperimental MethodologyRestraintSampling TechniquesCompound AdministrationOther TechniquesCommon Research Uses of RatsOther Rats Used in ResearchResourcesOrganizationsPublicationsElectronic ResourcesEquipment and Facilities MeetingsTechnical EducationVendorsResearch Animal Diagnostic LaboratoriesResearch SupportSanitation SuppliesTransportationVeterinary and Surgical Supplies

Zielgruppe

Veterinary/lab animal technicians and other animal caretakers; biomedical, toxicology, and social science researchers/laboratory veterinarians; small animal veterinarians in private practice veterinary students.

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