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The Laboratory Mouse

  • 3rd Edition - November 1, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Werner Muller
  • Language: English

The Laboratory Mouse, Third Edition offers comprehensive coverage written by international experts. With inclusions of the newly revised European standards on laboratory animals,… Read more

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The Laboratory Mouse, Third Edition offers comprehensive coverage written by international experts. With inclusions of the newly revised European standards on laboratory animals, this is the most current, global authority on the care of mice in laboratory research. This well-illustrated edition has been fully revised with new editorial leadership key additions which include: Discussion about the use of CRIPR/CAS technologies, various approaches to the laboratory mouse as a model for human diseases, and links between the laboratory mouse and Systems Biology/Medicine (i.e. systematic mouse mutant phenotyping).

Key features

  • Features four-color illustrations with complete instruction on mouse surgery, anatomy, behavior and care of the mouse in laboratory research

  • Offers additional chapters on new mouse strains, phenotyping of strains, bacteria and parasites, and immunology
  • Includes the newly revised EU standards on care, as well as, comparisons to standards and regulations in the US and other countries

Readership

biomedical researchers, laboratory animal veterinarians, and other professionals engaged in laboratory animal sciences

Table of contents

PART 1 History and Genetics
PART 2 Anatomy and Normative Biology
PART 3 Neoplasm and Infectious Diseases
PART 4 Husbandry and Maintenance
PART 5 Procedures
PART 6 Laboratory Mouse Model in Systems Biology/Medicine
PART 7 Legal Regulation

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2029
  • Language: English

About the editor

WM

Werner Muller

• Bill Ford Chair of Cellular Immunology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester • Research Scientist Miltenyi Biotec, Germany (multinational team of more than 1200 biomedical scientists, physicians and engineers who develop and manufacture cell labelling reagents, cell separation and analysis devices, systems for clinical application, etc.) • Previous Academic Director, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany • Awarded Lord Alliance Prize 2015 with Steffen Jung (Weizmann Institute, Israel) • Elected Member of Academia Europea in 2015 (Physiology and Neuroscience) • WM has more than thirty years’ research experience in immunology, murine embryonic stem cell work and mouse transgene technology and conditional gene targeting and is using this expertise to dissect the regulatory mechanisms governing cytokine-signaling pathways by targeted gene inactivation resulting in more than 210 publications.