Overview
- Serves as a contemporary and comprehensive reference and laboratory manual
- Systematically covers all topics of laboratory mice operations, from anatomy to microscopic surgical techniques
- Revolutionizes our understanding of a mouse's anatomy
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book fills the current void of academic writings on laboratory mouse operation, giving research scientists, graduate students, and laboratory technicians an authoritative textbook and definitive laboratory companion. It covers mouse anatomy, the handling of the mouse, anesthesia, drug administration, specimen collection, organ harvesting and daily laboratory skills as well as advanced micro-surgery techniques. Its detailed description of mouse anatomy corrects many inaccuracies and misconceptions in the literature. It provides a wealth of basic laboratory skills and numerous advanced surgical techniques. The step-by-step explanations, with extensive photographic images and videos, improve the current understanding and practice of laboratory mouse operations.
This book lays the foundation of laboratory mouse operations by offering a clear understanding of the basic principles, updated anatomic studies, and providing invaluable practical tools. It serves a wide audience, including laboratory animal scientists, pharmaceutical science researchers, graduate students in these fields, micro surgeons, veterinarians, and laboratory technicians.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Pengxuan Liu, Ophthalmologist and Manager of Animal Study in the Gene Therapy Lab at the University of Southern California and Scientist at Bayer HealthCare.
Dr. Don Liu, Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Ophthalmic Plastic and Orbital Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Missouri, formerly a faculty at the University of Southern California in Los Angelas and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liu's Principles and Practice of Laboratory Mouse Operations
Book Subtitle: A Surgical Atlas
Authors: Pengxuan Liu, Don Liu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74501-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74500-4Published: 17 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74503-5Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74501-1Published: 16 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 1070
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 3039 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological Techniques, Biomedicine, general, Surgery, Surgery