Background of the laboratory rat 1. Historical Foundations 2. Taxonomy and Stocks and Strains 3. Translational Potential of Rats in Research
Biology and care 4. Functional Anatomy and Physiology 5. Clinical Pathology of the Rat 6. Reproduction and Breeding 7. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Modification in Rats 8. Analysis of Behavior in Laboratory Rats 9. Nutrition 10. Housing and Environment
Clinical care and disease 11. Medical Management and Diagnostic Approaches 12. Bacterial, Mycoplasmal, and Mycotic Infections 13. Viral Disease 14. Parasitic Diseases 15. Neoplastic Disease 16. Metabolic, Traumatic, and Miscellaneous Diseases 17. Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Euthanasia 18. Care of Surgical and Other Fragile Models
Rats as research models 19. General Experimental Techniques 20. Integrating Biology with Rat Genomic Tools 21. Gnotobiotics and the Microbiome 22. Toxicology 23. Embryology and Teratology 24. Rat Immunology 25. Cardiovascular Research 26. Rat Models of Alcohol Use Disorder 27. Rat Models of Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Diabetes 28. The Rate in Neuroscience Research 29. Rat Models of Central Nervous System Injury 30. Use of the Rat as a Model in Regenerative Medicine 31. Rat Models of Infectious Disease
