The laboratory rat / edited by Mark A. Suckow, F. Claire Hankenson, Ronald P. Wilson, Patricia L. Foley.

Format Electronic
EditionThird edition.
PublicationLondon, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]
Copyright Date©2020
Description1 online resource (xv, 1,162 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental Content https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=5978011
Subjects

Other author/creatorSuckow, Mark A., editor.
Other author/creatorHankenson, F. Claire, 1971- editor.
Other author/creatorWilson, Ronald P. editor.
Other author/creatorFoley, Patricia L., editor.
SeriesAmerican College of Laboratory Animal Medicine series
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine series. ^A10617
Contents Historical foundations -- Taxonomy and stocks and strains -- Translational potential of rats in research -- Functional anatomy and physiology -- Clinical pathology of the rat -- Reproduction and breeding -- Assisted reproductive technologies and genetic modifications in rats -- Analysis of behavior in laboratory rats -- Nutrition -- Housing and environment -- Medical management and diagnostic approaches -- Bacterial, mycoplasmal, and mycotic infections -- Viral disease -- Parasitic diseases -- Neoplastic disease -- Metabolic, traumatic, and miscellaneous diseases -- Anesthesia, analgesia, and euthanasia -- Care of surgical and other fragile models -- General experimental techniques -- Integrating biology with rat genomic tools -- Gnotobiotics and the microbiome -- Toxicology -- Embryology and teratology -- Rat immunology -- Cardiovascular research -- Rat models of alcohol use disorder -- Rat models of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes -- The rat in neuroscience research -- Rat models of central nervous system injury -- Use of the rat as a model in regenerative medicine -- Rat models of infectious disease
Abstract "[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, and infectious disease. New information related to the husbandry and veterinary care of rats is provided including topics related to nutrition, reproduction, anesthesia and surgery, infectious and noninfectious disease, and the care of surgical and other fragile models. It is a premier source of information on the laboratory rat, this book will be of interest to veterinary and medical students, senior graduate students, postdocs and researchers who utilize animals in biomedical research"--Publisher's description
General noteRevised edition of: The laboratory rat / edited by Mark A. Suckow, Steven H. Weisbroth, Craig L. Franklin. [2006].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from resource home page (ScienceDirect, viewed January 28, 2021).
Issued in other formPrint version: Laboratory rat. Third edition. Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2020 9780128143384
ISBN9780128143391 (electronic book)
ISBN0128143398 (electronic book)