by Tapan Chatterjee (Author)
The book entitled "Rodents for Pharmacological Experiments" covers important pharmacological experiments on two kinds of rodents (mice and rats). The book describes wide range of contents and author has taken into consideration to enlighten all important topics related to pharmacological experiments with mice and rats. Section A of this book comprises about care, breeding, handling and nutrition etc. of laboratory mice and rats. Section B assembles most important methods for screening pharmacologically active substances using mice and rats. The methods described here are thoroughly and vividly written, thus providing readers with up-to-date information. This book also include two important topics like "Guidelines for care and use of animals in research" and "GLP for animal research." The book would obviously create interest to those researchers, who are in the quest of new pharmacologically active drugs. A variety of investigators in the field of Pharmacology, pharmaceutics, physiology, pharmacognosy, toxicology may find useful information and data for their research works from this book.