Publisher's Synopsis
The principal aim of this text is to provide a comprehensive source of scientifically based information on a major laboratory animal species - the rabbit. In this edition, a further aim is to update material to include an expanding data base obtained from laboratory use and investigation.;The text continues to emphasize the normal biology as well as diseases of the European (domestic) rabbit, Orytolagus cuniculus, especially the New Zealand White breed, with occasional reference to other rabbit species (Sylvilagus sp.) and hares (Lepus sp.). New topics have been added to this second edition in response to changing trends in biomedical research and product testing, to include chapters on: anaesthesia and analgesia, models in infectious disease research, models in ophthalmology and vision research, polyclonal antibody production, toxicity and safety testing, and drug doses and clinical reference data.
