The laboratory rat /

"[This book] features updated information on a variety of topics, including rats as research models for basic and translational research in areas such as genomics, alcoholism, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, neuroscience, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, regenerative medicine,...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Suckow, Mark A. (Editor), Hankenson, F. Claire, 1971- (Editor), Wilson, Ronald P. (Editor), Foley, Patricia L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Historical foundations / Mark A. Suckow and Henry J. Baker
  • Taxonomy and stocks and strains / Hans J. Hedrich
  • Translational potential of rats in research / Sara A. Hashway and Laura A. Wilding
  • Functional anatomy and physiology / Robin Crisler [and 3 others]
  • Clinical pathology of the rat / Tara P. Arndt and Laura I. Boone
  • Reproduction and breeding / Jeffrey J. Lohmiller, Sonya P. Swing and Marina M. Hanson
  • Assisted reproductive technologies and genetic modifications in rats / Yuksel Agca
  • Analysis of behavior in laboratory rats / Ian Q. Whishaw and Bryan Kolb
  • Nutrition / Barbara Mickelson [and 3 others]
  • Housing and environment / Robert E. Faith, Kenneth P. Allen and Jack R. Hessler
  • Medical management and diagnostic approaches / Glen M. Otto and Matthew H. Myles
  • Bacterial, mycoplasmal, and mycotic infections / Steven H. Weisbroth and Dennis F. Kohn
  • Viral disease / James D. Macy and Susan R. Compton
  • Parasitic diseases / Theresa M. Meade and Julie Watson
  • Neoplastic disease / Angela P. King-Herbert, Kyathanahalli S. Janardhan and Ronald A. Herbert
  • Metabolic, traumatic, and miscellaneous diseases / William W. King and Michael T. Drake
  • Anesthesia, analgesia, and euthanasia / Jennifer LS. Lofgren, Patricia L. Foley and Huw DR. Golledge
  • Care of surgical and other fragile models / Andrea R. Slate and Rivka L. Shoulson
  • General experimental techniques / Felicia Duke Boynton, Misha Dunbar and Nathan Koewler
  • Integrating biology with rat genomic tools / Melinda R. Dwinell and Aron M. Geurts
  • Gnotobiotics and the microbiome / Philip B. Carter, Elisabeth Norin and Alton G. Swennes
  • Toxicology / Angela King-Herbert and Mary Ann Vasbinder
  • Embryology and teratology / Manu M. Sebastian and Tiffany Marie Borjeson
  • Rat immunology / Angela M. Mexas and Karuna Patil
  • Cardiovascular research / Portia S. Allen [and 5 others]
  • Rat models of alcohol use disorder / Brendan J. Tunstall, Leandro F. Vendruscolo and Krystal Allen-Worthington
  • Rat models of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes / Claudio E. Perez-Leighton [and 4 others]
  • The rat in neuroscience research / Nadine El-Ayache and James J. Galligan
  • Rat models of central nervous system injury / Blythe H. Philips [and 3 others]
  • Use of the rat as a model in regenerative medicine / Jodi A. Scholz [and 6 others]
  • Rat models of infectious disease / Jolaine M. Wilson, Paul E. Makidon and Ingrid L. Bergin.