Rabbit Biotechnology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Houdebine, Louis-Marie (Editor), Fan, Jianglin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biotechnology.; Genetic engineering.; Animal genetics.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Genetic Engineering.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Louis-Marie Houdebine and Jianglin Fan The study of biological functions of proteins and their possible roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases requires more and more relevant animal m- els. Although mice including genetically modified mice offer many possibilities, other non-murine species are...

Table of Contents:

• Improvement of Rabbit Production
• Basic Methods for Experimental Rabbits
• Useful Information for Rabbit Genes, Proteins, and Antibodies
• General Physiology of Rabbits
• Rabbit Transgenesis
• Rabbit as a Model for the Study of Human Diseases
• Transgenic Rabbits to Prepare Pharmaceutical Proteins
• Derivation and Characterization of Rabbit Embryonic Stem Cells: A Review
• Rabbit Cloning
• The European Rabbit Genome.