Trace Elements in Laboratory Rodents

Produktbeschreibung

Written by the international community's leading experts, Trace Elements in Laboratory Rodents describes the best and most current methods to provide deficient or supplemental trace elements to laboratory animals, as well as how to assay them. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Overview: AIN-93 Purified Diets for the Study of Trace Elements
Metabolism in Rodents. Basic Tissue Preparation for Electron Microscopy
Assessment of Rodents. Iron: Dietary Iron: Deficiency or Excess. The Use of
Iron-Dextran to Produce Iron Overload in Rodents. Extraction and Analysis of
Iron Species in Diet and Gut. Manganese: Manganese Deficiency and Excess in
Rodents. Manganese Uptake in Tissues In Vitro: Tissue Slices as Models.
Selenium: Selenium Diets: Deficiency and Excess. Selenium in Tissue Culture.
Copper: Copper Deficient and Excess Diets: Theoretical Considerations and
Preparations. Copper in Tissue Culture. Zinc: Zinc Diets: Deficiency and Excess.
Zinc Radiotracer in the Study of the Mechanisms of Zinc Homeostasis. Other Trace
Elements: Dietary Boron Deficiency and Supplementation. Measurements of Boron in
Rodent Diets and Tissues. Methods for Studying Dietary Lead and its Toxicity in
Rodents. Methods in Chromium Dietary Supplementation and Deficiency. Isolation
and In Vitro Analysis of Biologically Active Chromium. Calcium Bioavailability
Using a Rat Model. Vanadium Quantitation, Essentiality, and Pharmacologic and
Toxicological Studies in Rodents. Nickel-Low Diet Formulation and Tissue Nickel
Measurement. Index. 

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Ronald R. Watson