Laboratory Animal Science

A Primate Model for the Study of Colitis and Colonic Carcinoma describes recent observations of the prevalence, pathogenesis, natural history, and time-course of idiopathic colitis and colonic carcinoma in the Cotton-Top Tamarin (CTT) model...

For the convenience of research workers, particularly those with limited knowledge of embryology, we have put together a series of tables to enable rapid identification of specific stages of embryonic development in the more commonly used mammals. Because if its frequent usage the chick embryo is in..

This new edition of Animal Models of Diabetes provides researchers with updated and expanded information regarding the use models in experiments with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. It compiles relevant timesaving information on most, if not all, current well-recognized models for both types of dia..

Comparative Cardiovascular Dynamics of Mammals..

These volumes present the main classes of useful laboratory model systems used to study microbial ecosystems, with emphasis on the practical details for the use of each model...

Written for biomedical researchers, this manual on the experimental surgery of rats summarizes a series of techniques that have been applied at the Bone Biology Laboratories, School of Medicine, Rosario National University, Argentina. Stopping short of an exhaustive analysis of the techniques, the m..

This text presents a variety of methods of creation of renal failure, by the author‘s experience in the study and support of laboratory animal models of renal failure. This text also discusses three studies on the mechanisms of renal damage and renal failure in animal models...

Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research: From Behavior to Molecular Biology presents a comprehensive treatment of auditory research using mice. Although it focuses on the work being done with mice, it provides general background information and insights gained from the study of mice in the greater conte..

Management of Animal Care and Use Programs in Research, Education, and Testing, Second Edition is the extensively expanded revision of the popular book published earlier this century. It serves as a first line management resource, providing for strong advocacy for advancing quality animal welfare an..

While research has enabled us to better understand the nonhuman primates, it has also providing medical scientists with important tools for the study of human biomedical problems. This book is about those research tools. The book was designed by identifying areas of human medical research that are u..

This study presents age-associated pathologic findings in aging rats that had been maintained under similar well-controlled laboratory conditions. The aim of the study was to evaluate two rat strains and their F1, hybrid...

The purpose of this book is to provide information which supports the fact that rat hybridomas are no more difficult to develop than mouse hybridomas...