Animal Models in Liver Research : Volume 37 (Advances in Veterinary Medicine)
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Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive survey and update of liver models used today by researchers on animal and human liver function and disease. Important topics of animal research that are in this book and that have leadto breakthroughs in understanding human disease include cholesteral and bile pigment gallstones; alcoholic hepatopathy; neonatal jaundice; and kernicterus. The books contains a wide variety of animal models, including squirrel monkeys, gunn rats, lampres, horses, and chickens, to make this a truly comparative synthesis.
Key Features
* Important topics of animal research that have lead to breakthroughs in understanding human diseases:
* Cholesterol and bile pigment gallstones
* Alcoholic hepatopathy
* Neonatal jaundice
* Kernicterus (jaundice affecting the brain)
From the Back Cover
This book presents a comprehensive survey and update of liver models used today by researchers on animal and human liver function and disease. Important topics of animal research that have lead to breakthroughs in understanding human diseases are covered, including:
* Cholesterol and bile pigment gallstones
* Alcoholic hepatopathy
* Neonatal jaundice
* Kernicterus (jaundice affecting the brain)
Studies of animal models as varied as squirrel monkeys, gunn rats, lampreys, horses, and chickens make this a truly comparative synthesis.
Animal Models in Liver Research: Volume 37 (Advances in Veterinary Medicine),Charles E. Cornelius,Academic Press,0120392372,Animal models,Disease Models, Animal,Diseases,Life Sciences - Zoology - General,Liver,Liver Diseases,Medical,Medical / Nursing,Medicine (Specific Aspects),Veterinary Internal Medicine,Veterinary Medicine - General,Science / Zoology
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