Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research - Andersen, Monica Levy.; Tufik, Sergio; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
PART 1 Ethics -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The aspects of the use of rodents in experimental research -- CHAPTER 3 The impact of the environment on laboratory animals -- CHAPTER 4 Basic concepts in alternative methods to the use of animals -- CHAPTER 5 Care and Maintenance of Laboratory Animals -- CHAPTER 6 Euthanasia -- PART 2 Use of Rats -- CHAPTER 7 The Health of Laboratory Animals -- CHAPTER 8 Rats -- CHAPTER 9 The Female Rat -- PART 3 General Procedures and Methods in Rodents Research -- CHAPTER 10 Anaesthesia in Laboratory Animals -- CHAPTER 11 Various Surgical Procedures in Rodents -- CHAPTER 12 Transgenic Animals: Principles, Methods and Applications -- CHAPTER 13 Measuring Electrocardiogram and Heart Rate in Small laboratory animals with Radi-Telemetry -- CHAPTER 14 Gene Expression Studies Using Microarrays -- CHAPTER 15 Brain Microdialysis -- PART 4 Behavioral Models in Rodents -- CHAPTER 16 Sexual Behavior in rats: An Animal Model for the Study of the Neuroendocrine System -- CHAPTER 17 Maternal Behavior -- CHAPTER 18 Behavioral Methods to Study Learning and Memory in Rats -- CHAPTER 19 Animal Tests for Anxiety -- CHAPTER 20 The Plus-Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task: An Ethical Rodent Model for Concomitant Evaluation of Learning, Memory, Anxiety, Motor Activity and their Interactions -- CHAPTER 21 Rodent Models in Psychiatric Research -- PART 5 Other uses of Rodent Models -- CHAPTER 22 Male Reproductive Toxicology -- CHAPTER 23 Sleep Patterns in Rats -- CHAPTER 24 Narcolepsy-Cataplexy in the Rats -- CHAPTER 25 Hypoxia: Introduction of Mechanisms and Consequences -- CHAPTER 26 Assessment of Motor Function in Rodents: Behavioral Models Sharing Simplicity and Multifaceted Applicability Part 1: The Open-Field Test* -- CHAPTER 27 Assessment of Motor Function in Rodents: Behavioral Models Sharing Simplicity and Multifaceted Applicability Part 2: The Catalepsy Test -- CHAPTER 28 Assessment of Motor Function in Rodents: Behavioral Models Sharing Simplicity and Multifaceted Applicability Part 3: Orafacial Dyskinesia -- CHAPTER 29 Experimental Diet Models in the Investigation of Obesity.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Behavioral sciences; Neurosciences; Behavioral Sciences