Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research

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.