Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs
    Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs
    Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs
    Ebook387 pages9 hours

    Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs

    By William I. Gay

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Methods of Animal Experimentation, Volume V: Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs is a collection of papers that deals with methods to be used in animal experiments to achieve cost effectiveness in their use. This collection discusses laboratory animals used in different experiments such as in nutritional research, aging studies, and artificial organ research. The papers describe the species of animals appropriate for the kind of experiment to be conducted and the criteria that should be followed in choosing a certain species. These criteria include their growth rate, stage of development, as well as existing performance variations. In determining test animals for aging experiments, the book recommends that complete data be available on the genetics of the species, strain, diet history, environmental factors, breeding, and spontaneous diseases to approximate the best test results. The book addresses that the aged are more susceptible to inputs than the young in terms of morphological and functional age. In selecting test animals for artificial organ research, the book notes the importance of animal selection that will be determined, for example, by 1) the size of the prosthesis; 2) the amount of blood flow needed for the device differs in animals and man; and 3) the surgical techniques that will be employed. This book will prove helpful for laboratory workers, veterinarians, and technicians working with laboratory animals. This collection will also be appreciated by researchers designing medical and scientific tests.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateSep 25, 2013
    ISBN9781483259710
    Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs

    Related to Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs

    Related ebooks

    Wellness For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Earliest Bird Got The Worm: New Study Finds A 120-million-year-old Group Of Birds Probably Ate Insects Rather Than Fish

      May 30, 2022

      As the saying goes: "The early bird gets the worm", and a new study from Hong Kong suggests a group of birds from 120 million years ago may have, in fact, eaten worms. Or, more precisely, invertebrates. Published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Biol

      3 min read

    • Article

      'It Can Create Life': Chinese Team Claim Stem Cell Breakthrough In Mice Study

      Jun 23, 2022

      Chinese scientists say they have found a way to reprogram stem cells so they have potential to generate an entire organism. In a study on mice cells published in the journal Nature journal on Tuesday, Tsinghua University researchers said the stem cel

      2 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Aug 19, 2022

      A blind, cave-dwelling weevil, an ant that protects the caterpillars of one of Australia’s rarest butterflies, and the first millipede to have more than 1,000 legs were among 139 new species described by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Uncovering Inner Workings of the Biological Clock

      Oct 2, 2017

      The 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Roshbash, and Michael Young for their discoveries of circadian rhythms.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Comment Afingeronthepulse

      Jun 4, 2023

      Ifwe had a dollar for everyone who has written in to tell us about their amazing new “quantum device,” we could retire tomorrow. Everywhere you look, there are products claiming to heal you via newly tapped-into “frequencies” or “standing waves” or e

      3 min read

    • Article

      How Snakes Became ‘Evolutionary Winners’

      Feb 26, 2024

      New research digs into how snakes hit the evolutionary jackpot. More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. Then, in a bur

      4 min read

    • Article

      1 Amino Acid May Give Some Whales Teeth

      Jul 20, 2017

      Reserchers have found that a variation in a single amino acid in a key receptor in whales may explain why some species are sleek hunters (like orcas) while others are gargantuan filter feeders (like humpbacks). Roger Cone of the University of Michiga

      2 min read

    • Article

      News Of The Week

      Aug 18, 2023

      News Of The Week
      5 min read

    • Article

      Mirror-Image Life

      Oct 9, 2023

      Mirror-Image Life
      13 min read

    • Article

      Weird Science

      Jan 19, 2023

      Weird Science
      8 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Oct 29, 2021

      They have fluff years, a penetrating stare and a penchant for monogamy. But it turns out that indris – a large, critically endangered species of lemur – have an even more fascinating trait: an unexpected sense of rhythm. Indri indri are known for the

      2 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Mar 8, 2024

      Modern imaging techniques have revealed that a 280m-year-old fossilised reptile, Tridentinosaurus antiquus, discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931 is, in fact, a carving covered in black paint. Dr Valentina Rossi, from University College Cork, in Ire

      1 min read

    • Article

      Live Fast, Die Last

      Jun 3, 2020

      Live Fast, Die Last
      9 min read

    • Article

      Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung: “Paleoscatologist” Karen Chin Has Uncovered the Humble Origin of Life After Dinosaurs.: “Paleoscatologist” Karen Chin has uncovered the humble origin of life after dinosaurs.

      Apr 21, 2016

      Karen Chin doesn’t have all the answers, but she is willing to make those awkward phone calls that will give her the information she needs. There was the time back in 1998 when she needed to know what size animal could produce a fecal mass of 2.4 lit

      9 min read

    • Article

      From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project: This Yellowstone bacterium sparked PCR, one of the great advances in genetics.

      Jan 5, 2017

      In 1994, a Swiss biologist named Pascal Gagneux began a Ph.D. program in zoology. His research plan was to stalk populations of wild chimpanzees in Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. Specifically, Gagneux was in search of chimp nests in forest trees. After he f

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Nutrition, Aging, and Artificial Organs - William I. Gay

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1