Manual of Microsurgery on the Laboratory Rat (ISBN 978-0444811394)

By J.J. van Dongen, R. Remie, J.W. Rensema and G.H.J. van Wunnik, 293 pages, paperback, ISBN-10 0-444-81139-7, Elsevier, 1990.

Instech review: one of the definitive textbooks on rat microsurgery. Highly illustrated.

Table of Contents

1. The rat as an experimental animal
2. The use of different strains
3. General principles of microsurgery
4. The operation microscope
5. Brief anatomy of the rat
6. Anaesthesia of the laboratory rat
7. General techniques
8. Permanent cannulation of the jugular vein (acc. to Steffens)
9. Portacaval anastamosis
10. Permanent double bile fistula (with intact enterhepatic circulation)
11. Permanent cannulation of the portal vein
12. Permanent cannulation of the renal vein
13. Permanent cannulation of the iliolumbar artery
14. Permanent cannulation of the thoracic duct
15. Perfusion of the isolated gut in vivo
16. Intra-uterine operations