March 2007 JAALAS Now Available

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BIOLOGY
Variation in Organ Volumes of Matched BALB/c Mice by Microcomputed Tomography Analysis
Robin J Kastenmayer and Kathy A Perdue

Effect of Method of Euthanasia on Sperm Motility of Mature Sprague-Dawley Rats
Shannon A Stutler, Eric W Johnson, Kenneth R Still, David J Schaeffer, Rex A Hess, and Darryl P Arfsten

Discrimination of C57BL/6J Rj and 129S2/SvPasCrl Inbred Mouse Strains by Use of Simple Sequence Length Polymorphisms
Celine Lamacchia, Gaby Palmer, and Cem Gabay

Genomic Comparison of Lewis and Wistar-Furth Rat Substrains by Use of Microsatellite Markers
Ralph J Callicott, Scott T Ballard, and James E Womack

Anesthesia for Cardiovascular Interventions and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pigs
Gernot M Kaiser, Frank Breuckmann, Stephanie Aker, Holger Eggebrecht, Hilmar Kuehl, Raimund Erbel, Nils R Fruhauf, Christoph E Broelsch, and Harald H Quick

FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Use of Environmentally Enriched Housing for Rats with Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Standardization
Darlene A Burke, David SK Magnuson, Christine D Nunn, Kimberly G Fentress, Mary L Wilson, Alice H Shum-Siu, Meika C Moore, Logan E Turner, William W King, and Stephen M Onifer

Efficacy of Fenbendazole and Milbemycin Oxime for Treating Baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) Infected with Trichuris trichiura
Mason V Reichard, Roman F Wolf, David W Carey, Jennifer Jane Garrett, and Heather A Briscoe

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE
Strategies for Refinement of Abdominal Device Implantation in Mice: Strain, Carboxymethylcellulose, Thermal Support, and Atipamezole
Nancy A Johnston, Christine Bosgraaf, Lisa Cox, Joel Reichensperger, Steven Verhulst, Calvin Patten Jr, and Linda A Toth

A Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Based on the gyrB Gene Sequence and Subsequent Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Pasteurella pneumotropica Isolates from Laboratory Mice
Nobuhito Hayashimoto, Masami Ueno, Akira Takakura, and Toshio Itoh

Complete Blood Count, Clinical Chemistry, and Serology Profile by Using a Single Tube of Whole Blood from Mice
Charles E Wiedmeyer, Dawn Ruben, and Craig Franklin

Automated Mouse Euthanasia in an Individually Ventilated Caging System: System Development and Assessment
Alyssa R McIntyre, Robert A Drummond, Elyn R Riedel, and Neil S Lipman

Comparison of Cardiovascular Effects of Tiletamine-Zolazepam, Pentobarbital, and Ketamine-Xylazine in Male Rats
Dhanonjoy C Saha, Animita C Saha, Gautam Malik, Mark E Astiz, and Eric C Rackow

The Evaluation of Whole-body Plethysmography as a Semiautomated Method for Analysis of Emesis in the House Musk Shrew (Suncus murinus)
Nobuhiko Tashiro, Masanori Kataoka, Kazunori Ozawa, and Takuya Ikeda

CASE REPORTS
Epistylididae ectoparasites in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)
Kathleen R Pritchett and George E Sanders

Uterine Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumor in an African Green Monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)
David Chu, Ie-Ming Shih, Mary Knezevich, and Sachiv Sheth

PUBLIC STATEMENT
Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Rodents and Rabbits
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