474 pages
Trim Size 8 1/2 X 10 7/8 in
Copyright 2012
Hardcover, Reference
Academic Press Title
ISBN: 9780123813619


Key Features

• Print + Electronic product - E-book available on Elsevier’s Expert Consult platform- through a scratch-off pin code inside the print book, customers will be able to access the full text online, perform quick searches, and download images at expertconsult.com
  
• Offers the first comprehensive source for comparing human and mouse anatomy and histology through over 600 full-color images, in one reference work
  
• Experts from both human and veterinary fields take readers through each organ system in a side-by-side comparative approach to anatomy and histology - human Netter anatomy images along with Netter-style mouse images
  
• Enables human and veterinary pathologists to examine tissue samples with greater accuracy and confidence
  
• Teaches biomedical researchers to examine the histologic changes in their mutant mice

Description
Comparative Anatomy and Histology: A Mouse and Human Atlas is aimed at the new mouse investigator as well as medical and veterinary pathologists who need to expand their knowledge base into comparative anatomy and histology. It guides the reader through normal mouse anatomy and histology using direct comparison to the human. The side by side comparison of mouse and human tissues highlight the unique biology of the mouse, which has great impact on the validation of mouse models of human disease.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Tissue harvesting
3. Phenotyping
4. Cutaneous Tissue 
5. Mammary Gland
6. Skeletal System
7. Nervous System
8. Special Senses
9. Upper aerodigestive system
10. Respiratory
11. Cardiovascular
12. Upper GI
13. Lower GI
14. Liver
15. Pancreas
16. Hematopoietic
17. Urinary
18. Female Reproductive
19. Male Reproductive
20. Endocrine System

Author Information

Edited by Piper M. Treuting, DVM, MS, Diplomate, ACVP, Assistant Professor and Chief of Comparative Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA and Suzanne M. Dintzis, MD, PhD , Anatomic Pathology Division, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA