Laboratory Animal Management: Rodents

This book is a useful reference and provides a valuable insight into the North American approach to animal care including the depth and breadth of their legislation, ethical approach and procedural controls e.g. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. 

Table of Contents: Laboratory Animals and Public Perspective; Responsibilities of Animal Care and Use Committees; Criteria for Selecting Experimental Animals; Genetic Management of Breeding Colonies; Husbandry; Veterinary Care; Facilities; Rodents That Require Special Consideration; Appendix: Sources of Information on Importing Rodents; Index.

First Edition. This book is part of the Laboratory Animal Management series. 180 pages. Available as a Paperback, Ebook and PDF Download. The entire book may be read online free of charge. To download a free PDF of this book, the reader must log in with his free MyNAP Account. MyNAP members enjoy free access to thousands of National Academies reports, and gets 10% discount off every purchase at NAP.edu. Please click on Register under Purchase Options to sign up for a MyNAP account. If the reader already has a MyNAP account, he can log in by clicking the Login button. This book may also be read online free of charge. A review of this book is available in Laboratory Animals, October 1997, Volume 31 (4), page 379, or at http://la.rsmjournals.com/archive/.  

Please see record number 6908 entitled "Laboratory Animal Management: Dogs" for another book in this series.