Main description:

Background Lesions in Laboratory Animals will be an invaluable aid to pathologists needing to recognize background and incidental lesions while examining slides taken from laboratory animals in acute and chronic toxicity studies, or while examining exotic species in a diagnostic laboratory. It gives clear descriptions and illustrations of the majority of background lesions likely to be encountered. Many of the lesions covered are unusual and can be mistaken for treatment-related findings in preclinical toxicity studies.

The Atlas has been prepared with contributions from experienced toxicological pathologists who are specialists in each of the laboratory animal species covered and who have published extensively in these areas.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Non human primates. Cynomolgus monkey (Maccaca fascicularis) and marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Chapter 2 - Wistar and CD rat

Chapter 3 - Beagle Dog

Chapter 4 - Mouse

Chapter 5 - Syrian Hamster

Chapter 6 - Minipig

Chapter 7 - Rabbit

Chapter 8 - Artifacts in processed tissues

Chapter 9 - Reproduction of the Rat, Dog, Primate and Pig