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A Route for Intravenous Injection in the Albino Rat
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A Route for Intravenous Injection in the Albino Rat

  • KENNETH A. PEARCE1 

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Drs. Everett and Sawyer1 claim to have found that the small saphenous vein on the foot of the rat is far more satisfactory than the more commonly used tail vein for intravenous injection.

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  1. Sawyer, C. H., and Everett, J. W., Nature, 178, 268 (1956).

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  2. Pearce, K. A., Proc. J. Physiol., 135, No. 2 (1957).

  3. Greene, E. C., “The Anatomy of the Rat”.

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