Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals: 4th Revised Edition - No Cost Library*

Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals: 4th Revised Edition

   Author(s): Frank H. Netter  

Publisher: Elsevier India, Year: 1995

                                           

 Description:

In the years since the third release of this basic reference was distributed, an incredible arrangement was found about basic research center species' dietary prerequisites: rodent, mouse, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, and vole.

The Fourth Revised Edition presents the current master understanding of these creatures' lipid, sugar, protein, mineral, nutrient, and other health needs. The wide use of tables provides simple access to an abundance of exhaustive information and data on assets. The volume also gives an extended discussion of general dietary contemplations on the foundations.

• Despite an association which is easier to use, new highlights in this version include:
• A fundamentally expanded segment on rodent dietary preconditions, announcing generous new discoveries.
• Another area that is not yet required on supplements that can deliver gainful results.
• New data on development and conceptional execution among the most commonly used rodent and mice strains and on a few types of hamster animals.
• An extended diet definition and planning conversation - including test diets of both cleaned and common fixations.
• New mineral insufficiency and harmful information, including signs of caution.
• This definitive asset will be critical for analysts, specialists at the research center and feed lab creature makers.

Book Review:

A team of experts in the diet discipline has published the fourth updated version of Nutritional Criteria in Laboratory Animals. The fourth edition differs from the first one by having chapters summarizing the nutritional

Gerbil and vole requirements, alongside rat, mouse, guinea pig, and hamster requirements. Though the first edition summarized monkey and cat requirements as well as the requirements of the four commonly used laboratory animal species, this information is omitted in the fourth edition.

An excellent update of the literature is provided in this edition. The first chapter of the text provides general considerations for formulations of diets, and the rest of the text consists of chapters which provide the nutrient requirements of the individual species of laboratory animals. As set out in the preface, not all of the requirements reported in the text are based on experimental data; some are estimates derived from other species' published nutrient requirements.

The text contains 38 tables, two figures, four table appendices and a section that provides background information about the individual members of the Laboratory Animal Nutrition Subcommittee. Appendix tables provide a convenient source of information on the amino acid composition of purified proteins and the composition of fatty acids from commonly used sources. This is made easy to follow by the frequent use of tables for presenting material. The authors give data on growth and reproduction for different strains of

Each chapter has different species.

Although the text is overall excellent, there are rare references to older literature that misrepresent the state of illness in laboratory animals. In addition , the present edition does not include nutrient requirements for the rabbit, a commonly used laboratory animal. This soft-cover text provides all scientists with a handy source of diet formulating reference material, which is a valuable addition to the veterinarian which pathologist's laboratory animal collection.