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What is one difference between goat and sheep husbandry ?
Goats require stronger and taller fencing
Animal quarantine rooms and rooms containing animals experimentally infected with pathogens are normally kept under what type of pressure ?
Negative
Who administers the Animal Welfare Regulations ?
Animal and plant health inspection service of the United States department of agriculture
Anthelmintics and mitcides are examples of what ?
Parasiticides
Drugs that cause unconsciousness are called ?
General anesthetics
What is the most common injectable drug used to immobilize nonhuman primates.
Ketamine
Name two commonly used gas anesthetics
Halothane,isoflurane,sevoflurane
Drugs used to relieve pain are called ?
Analgesics
A substance that produces a fever in an animal is called ?
Pyrogen
Blood from what animal is used to develop a test for pyrogens called the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test ?
Horseshoe crab
Severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice lack what two types of immune cells ?
B and T cells
What do you call a substance that enhances the immune response to an antigen ?
Adjuvant
An accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity is called.
Ascites
What equipment is used to hold the head and make possible placement of materials into precise locations within a brain ?
Stereotaxic apparatus
How many milliliters are in one liter ?
1000
