The Laboratory Rat

List of contents

Background of the laboratory rat
1. Historical Foundations
2. Taxonomy and Stocks and Strains
3. Translational Potential of Rats in Research
Biology 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 Environment
Clinical 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 Models
Rats 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

• Assisted by: Patricia L Foley (Editor), F Claire Hankenson (Editor), Hankenson F. Claire (Editor), Mark A. Suckow (Editor), Patricia L. Foley (Editor), Mark A Suckow (Editor), Ronald P Wilson (Editor), Wilson Ronald P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2019
• EAN: 9780128143384
• ISBN: 978-0-12-814338-4
• Weight: 3330 g
• Series: American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, MEDICAL / Veterinary Medicine / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Zoology & animal sciences, Animal Husbandry, Zoology and animal sciences, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology, Veterinary medicine: laboratory animals