Intravenous feeding in the rabbit.
Experience with intravenous feeding in about forty rabbits forms the basis of this report. The results showed that low cost functional equipment and techniques for intravenous feeding and metabolic studies are possible in the rabbit. Restraining of the rabbit is necessary, but it hardly affects the results in short (up to three days) studies. Repeated at 24-hour intervals, heart punctures under anaesthesia allow to obtain large blood samples for microscopic, haematological and biochemical measurements during the same study.
D000818:Animals; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D002404:Catheterization; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D011817:Rabbits; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D012996:Solutions
D012996:Solutions