Blood collection is a common procedure in animal research. This column describes humane methods of collecting blood from the rat and the gerbil that can be carried out by a single person on an awake ...
A survey of 75 biomedical articles dealing with stress-dependent blood parameters in caged primates revealed that the conditions under which blood collection occurred were in most cased described ...
Several procedures have been described for blood sampling in laboratory rodents, including puncture of the saphenous vein 1, the translumbar vein 2, the jugular vein 3 or the aorta 4. In rats and mice ...
Training macaques to cooperate during blood collection is a practicable and safe alternative to the traditional procedure implying forced restraint. It takes a cumulative total of about 1 hr to train ...