Swine in the Laboratory: Surgery, Anesthesia, Imaging, and Experimental Techniques, Second Edition 2nd New edition [Hardback]

Given the complexity of porcine anatomy and the frequent appearance of swine in veterinary, agricultural and biomedical labs, newcomers have a steep learning curve and little time to learn pigs properly. This reference gives students comprehensive directions to preoperative care all the way through to recovery in a variety of experimental and practical settings, covering biology, handling, husbandry, anatomy, anesthetics and analgesia, perioperative care, wound closure and integument, and directions to procedures throughout the body systems, including the gastrointestinal, liver and biliary, urinary and reproductive, cardiovascular and pulmonary. Sections address catheterization and imagery endoscopy, xeno-transplantation and transgenic technologies, toxicology, and radiobiology. The illustrations and photographs are particularly well done. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

To diminish the learning curve associated with using swine as models, Swine in the Laboratory: Surgery, Anesthesia, Imaging, and Experimental Techniques, Second Edition provides practical technical information for the use of swine in biomedical research. The book focuses on models produced by surgical and other invasive procedures, supplying the basic principles for performing experiments with an organ or system of interest.

New to the Second Edition

Updated sections on anesthesia and perioperative care, including practical information for more complex models

Expansion of anatomic and physiologic details

Additional detail in the endoscopy section

Chapters on toxicology and radiobiology

Chapters that include angiographic, echocardiographic, CT, MRI, and PET imaging techniques with a corresponding DVD of the images

More tables of normal values on the most commonly used minipigs and domestic breeds

Beneficial for investigators, veterinarians, and technicians using swine for experimental and agricultural procedures, Swine in the Laboratory is certain to foster the appropriate, humane use of swine in biomedical research.