Contents

1  Historical foundations

2  Ethical and legal perspectives

3  Taxonomy and stocks and strains

4  Morphophysiology

5  Clinical pathology of the rat

6  Reproduction and breeding

7  Assisted reproductive technologies and genetic modifications in Rat

8  Analysis of behavior in laboratory Rats

9  Nutrition

10 Housing and environment

11 Bacterial,mycoplasmal and mycotic infections

12 Vial disease

13 Parasitic disease

14 Neoplastic disease

15 Metabolic,traumatic,and micellaneous disease

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18 Experimantal modeling and research

19 Anesthesia and analgesia

20 Euthanasia and necropsy

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29 Immunology

30 Wild and black Rats