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Various Surgical Procedures in Rodents

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Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research

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Surgery in laboratory animals, regardless of species or size, is governed by the same principles as surgery in human beings. A basic surgical tenet is Halstead’s rule, which cautions the surgeon to not do harm to the tissue. However, this is only one of a set of interrelated principles regarding tissue handling, exposure, asepsis and homeostasis.

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Remie, R. (2016). Various Surgical Procedures in Rodents. In: Andersen, M., Tufik, S. (eds) Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11578-8_10

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