Technique / Immunology / Animal techniques / Lab rat mouse blood collection

Commonly used blood collection techniques from rat and mouse: 1. Need surgery or anesthesia: Jugular venipuncture, Cardiac puncture, Retro-orbital plexus. 2. Regular blood sampling procedure without surgery: Lateral tail vein, ventral tail artery, tail tip removal, Saphenous vein.

Saphenous vein puncture for blood sampling of the mouse, rat, hamster, guineapig protocol
A PDF technical paper written by Annelise Hem et al from Laboratory Animal Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Norway. Summary A method is described for blood collection from the lateral saphenous vein. This enables rapid sampling, which if necessar ...

Guidelines for Blood Sample Withdrawal review
A general guideline for small animal including rat blood sample collection (Katy Wilson, D.V.M. Utah state University). The guideline provides researchers with information about single and multiple blood withdrawal on weekly basis from several lab animals i ...

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