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Neglected factors in pharmacology and neuroscience research : biopharmaceutics, animal characteristics, maintenance, testing conditions /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claassen, Volkert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1994.
Series:Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Pharmacology.
Neurosciences.
Animals, Laboratory.
Research Design.
Animal Welfare.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reproducibility of animal experiments
  • Biopharmaceutics
  • Intravenous drug administration
  • Intramuscular drug administration
  • Subcutaneous drug administration
  • Intraperitoneal drug administration
  • Oral drug administration
  • Animal characteristics
  • Inbred strains and outbred stocks
  • Male-female differences
  • Changes during development and aging
  • Maintenance of experimental animals
  • Housing conditions
  • Food composition
  • Food and water intake
  • Testing conditions
  • Fasting
  • Food restriction
  • Circadian and other rhythms.
  • Anaesthesia
  • Stress
  • Import of experimental results.