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Drug Administration

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Small Animal Imaging

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For biomedical research purpose the most commonly used laboratory animals are mice, followed by rats. All over the world the percentage usually varies around 80–90% of the total number of animals used (Tierschutzbericht 2007). For this reason this chapter goes in detail only on these two species.

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Nebendahl, K., Hauff, P. (2011). Drug Administration. In: Kiessling, F., Pichler, B. (eds) Small Animal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12945-2_8

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