Biology and diseases of the ferret
By: edited by James G. Fox, Robert P. Marini
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 835
ISBN-13: 9780470960455
Subjects: Animal Diseases; Ferrets; Laboratory Animals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taxonomy, history and use / James G. Fox; title: Anatomy of the ferret / Howard Evans and Nguyen Quoc An; title: Neuroanatomy of the ferret brain / Christopher D. Kroenke, Brian Mills, Jaime F. Olavarria, and Jeffrey J. Neil; title: Physiology of the ferret / Mark T. Whary; title: Nutrition / James G. Fox, Carrie S. Schultz, and Brittany M. Vester Boler; title: Housing and management / James G. Fox and Rosemary Broome; title: Normal clinical and biological parameters / James G. Fox; title: Growth, reproduction and breeding / James G. Fox, Judi Bell, and Rosemary Broome; title: Regulatory considerations / Robert P. Marini; title: Black-footed ferret recover / Rachel Santymire, Heather Branvold-Faber, and Paul Marinari; title: Physical examination and diagnosis / Robert P. Marini; title: Anesthesia / Jeffrey Ko and Robert P. Marini; title: Surgery / Stephen J. Mehler and Robert P. Marini; title: Hematopoietic diseases / Jerg Mayer, Susan E. Erdman, and James G. Fox; title: Diseases of the genitourinary tract / James G. Fox and Judi Bell; title: Diseases of the gastrointestinal system / Kirk J. Maurer and James G. Fox; title: Diseases of the endocrine system / Cassandra L. Miller, Robert P. Marini, and James G. Fox; title: Diseases of the cardiovascular system / Robert A. Wagner; title: Other systemic diseases / James G. Fox; title: Viral diseases / Matti Kuipel and David Perpiñan; title: Bacterial and mycoplasmal diseases / Alton G. Swennes and James G. Fox; title: Parasitic diseases / Mary Patterson, James G. Fox, and Mark L. Eberhard; title: Mycotic diseases / James G. Fox; title: Neoplastic diseases / James G. Fox, Sureshkumar Muthupalani, Matti Kiupel, and Bruce Williams; title: The ferret in viral respiratory disease research / Deborah R. Taylor; title: The ferret in morbillivirus research / Veronika von Messling; title: Use of the ferret in cardiovascular research / James P. Morgan; title: Genetic engineering in the ferret / Xingshen Sun, Ziying Yan, Xiaoming Liu, Alicia K. Oliver, and John F. Engelhardt; title: Hearing and auditory function in ferrets / Fernando R. Nodal and Andrew J. King; title: The ferret in vision and neuroplasticity research / Jitendra Sharma and Mriganka Sur; title: The ferret in nausea and vomiting research / Nathalie Percie du Sert and Paul L.R. Andrews; title: The ferret in lung carcinogenesis and nutritional chemoprevention research / Xiang-Dong Wang and Chun Liu.