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Rodents and Their Role in Ecology, Medicine and Agriculture

Rodents and Their Role in Ecology, Medicine and Agriculture
Rodents and Their Role in Ecology, Medicine and Agriculture Edited by Mohammad Manjur Shah

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Mohammad Manjur Shah
Mohammad Manjur Shah

Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano,
Nigeria

Published11 October 2023

Doi10.5772/intechopen.105295

ISBN978-1-83769-624-6

Print ISBN978-1-83769-625-3

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-1-83769-626-0

Copyright year2023

Number of pages98

This book provides a comprehensive overview of rodents and their use in experimental studies of human diseases. It includes two sections on rodents in experimental models and rodents in drug discovery and human zoonotic transmission. Chapters examine rodent models of female reproductive abnormalities and human vision and their role in zoonotic pathogen transmission of diseases and drug discovery.

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1. Dietary Habit-Induced Gynecologic Disorders in Young Female Students – Lessons from Rodent Experiments

By Tomoko Fujiwara, Rieko Nakata, Masanori Ono, Yumi Adachi, Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Takashi Hosono, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Takiko Daikoku and Hitoshi Ando

42
2. Gerbil, Psammomys Obesus, a Human-like Rodent Model of Eye Research

By Sihem Mbarek, Oumeima Hammami, Oumeima Achour and Rafika Ben Chaoucha-Chekir

35
3. Mice as an Experimental Model to Understand the Pathobiology of Diseases

By Rishika Jana, Souvik Karmakar, Bishal Hazra, Subhadeep Roy and Jayasri Das Sarma

57
4. Rodents Human Zoonotic Pathogens Transmission: Historical Background and Future Prospects

By Naveed Akhtar, Sara Hayee, Muhammad Idnan, Faheem Nawaz and Sadaf BiBi

177
5. Rodents in Drug Discovery

By Vinod Goyal and Mahalakshmi Bandari

54
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