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.