Blood Collection in Mice Using the Saphenous Vein - An Alternative to Retro Orbital Collection

Record number: 4634

Category: Medicine

Type: Web pages


Description: These web pages describe a method for blood collection from the saphenous vein of mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils, guinea-pigs, mink and ferrets.   The technique is available as a slide show and video presentation at http://film.oslovet.veths.no/saphena.   The technique is a satisfactory alternative to retro-orbital puncture.

Comments & References: The technique shown here was developed at the Laboratory Animal Centre, National Institute of Public Health under the leadership of Annelise Hem and has been published: Hem A., Smith A.J. & Solberg P. (1998): Saphenous vein puncture for blood sampling of the mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guineapig, ferret and mink.   Available in Laboratory Animals, Volume 32, 4 pages 364-368.   This article is available in pdf format at http://la.rsmjournals.com/cgi/reprint/32/4/364.pdf.

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Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., 0033 Oslo, Norway
Tel: Int-47-41-22-09-49
adrian.smith@nvh.no
http://oslovet.nvh.no



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