The Laboratory Rat, Third Edition

The third edition of The Laboratory Rat 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.
New chapters on the care of surgical and fragile models and on the use of rats in research areas such as alcoholism, regenerative medicine, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and others are included.

Third Edition. 1180 pages. Available as a Hardcover & eBook. May also be purchased as a Bundle (Hardcover & eBook). Published by Academic Press, now part of Elsevier. This textbook is sponsored by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM). Please see record number 6117 for another book entitled The Handbook of Experimental Animals: The Laboratory Rat. Table of Contents.