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Repeated Blood Collection from Tail Vein of Non-Anesthetized Rats with a Vacuum Blood Collection System
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Unassisted blood collection from unanesthetized rats and gerbils
Leanne C Alworth1, Lisa M Kelly, Tanya L Cooper
1University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. alworth@uga.edu
Lab Animal
|May 23, 2012
Abstract:
Blood collection is a common procedure in animal research. This column describes humane methods of collecting blood from the rat and the gerbil that can be carried out by a single person on an awake animal.
