… This chapter provides an overview of the natural history, anatomy, physiology, clinical …
Zoonotic diseases are also discussed to provide guidance for rat and mouse pet owners. …

… able to distinguish between a rat and a mouse. In order to … rats and/or mice, but also between
the semiotic relationships that humans have with the symbolic rat and symbolic mouse. As …

… One of the most obvious differences between rats and mice is in size and weight, with rats …
Although both rats and mice live in large hierarchical groups, rats are much less territorial and …

… that nearly half a million households in the USA own at least one pet rat or mouse. … Because
of its history of use for cancer research, the F344/N rat strain was the model of choice for the …

… Even before the first public release of the rat reference … between rat, human and mouse to
support the use of rat as a … ESTs and cDNAs between rat, mouse and human and using RH …

… a deep knowledge of natural history. Her guides to dissection … The rat, and its relative the
mouse, are the most widely used … the rat to that of man: the reader with a purist’s interest in rat …

… This article provides three protocols for use in mice and rats. Basic Protocol 1 discusses
injectable anesthesia. Basic Protocol 2 concentrates on inhalant anesthesia, and Basic Protocol …

… i .i NATURAL HISTORY A much-esteemed experimental psychologist once published a
denun ciation of the excessive use of tame rats in laboratory studies of be haviour. His article, …

… were the rats Rattus norvegicus and Ra. rattus and the main vector was the Oriental rat flea
(… Federally funded projects for rat control continued until the mid-1980s. Effective antibiotics …

In the context of modeling epilepsy and neuropsychiatric comorbidities, we review the Wistar
Audiogenic Rat (WAR), first introduced to the neuroscience international community more …