Designation of Laboratory Animals

Literature Related to Laboratory Animals

red: morph-specific contest success and survival rates in a colour polymorphic agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour 74:337-341. in females is also lateralized: left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): how should smaller males respond when size matters? Animal Behaviour 69:1325-1336.

Neuropharmacological activity of the aqueous leaf extract of Croton zambesicus (euphorbiaceae) in some laboratory animals

 To determine the neuropharmacological activity of the leaf extract of Croton zambesicus in mice and chicks. The effect of aqueous leaf extract of Croton zambesicus on thiopental sodium – induced sleeping time in mice, on gross locomotor activity (GLA) in 2-day old chicks and effect of extract on apomorphine - induced stereotyped behavior in chicks were evaluated. The a...

Aspiration of bone marrow in laboratory animals.

By R. DOROTHY SUNDBERG, PH.D., AND RUTH E. HODGSON, M.S. I NTEREST in obtaining specimens of bone marrow comparable to those aspirated from the human sternum, ilium, or spinous process caused us to devise a technic which we feel is both simple and reliable. Many similar technics have been described, but most of them have not attained wide usage because they have required minor surgical operatio...

Care and Management of Laboratory Animals

The Blood Picture of Normal Laboratory Animals *

I. Method of obtasning blood. The universal method of obtaining blood from the rat is by snipping off the tip of the tail, preferably with a razor blade. This method gives valid results only under certain circumstances, for by repeated bleeding from the tail, there results, from trauma, a high grade inflammatory reaction with hyperleukocytosis (Klieneberger and Carl281). Repeated withdrawals of...