Main description:

This is the ninth volume in a series dealing with induced lesions in laboratory animals. The information on pathology and toxicology documented in the series is an aid to scientific institutions, industry and government agencies charged with the safety testing of food, drugs and chemicals.

Contents:

Cardiovascular System.- Heart.- Non-neoplastic Lesions.- Nutritional Cardiomyopathy: Selenium-Vitamin E Deficiency, Mouse and Rat.- Inherited Dystrophic Cardiac Calcinosis, Mouse.- Calcification of the Heart, Hamster.- Hereditary Cardiomyopathy, Syrian Hamster.- Cardiotoxicity of Ionophores, Rat.- Myocardial Disease Associated with the Feeding of Unsaturated Vegetable Oil, Rat.- Atrial Thrombosis, Rat, Mouse, and Hamster.- Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.- Encephalitozoonosis of the Cardiovascular System, Rat and Mouse.- Myocarditis Due to Coxsackievirus B3, Mouse.- Neoplasms.- Endocardial Sarcoma, Rat.- Endomyocardial Neurofibromatosis, Rat.- Vasculature.- Non-neoplastic Lesions.- Polyarteritis, Rat.- Drug-Induced Lesions, Arteries, Rat.- Drug-Induced Lesions of the Coronary Artery, Dog.- Neoplasms.- Angiosarcoma of the Renal Capsule, Mouse.- Musculoskeletal System.- Skeletal Muscle.- Preparation and Reaction to Injury.- Procedures for Morphologic Studies of Skeletal Muscle, Rat, Mouse, and Hamster.- Pathologic Reactions of Skeletal Muscle to Injury.- Neoplasms.- Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Sbcutis, Rat.- Rhabdomyosarcoma, Mouse and Hamster.- Nutritional.- Nutritional Myopathy: Selenium-Vitamin E Deficiency, Rat and Mouse.- Inherited Disease.- X Chromosome-Linked Muscular Dystrophy (mdx) of the Skeletal Muscle, Mouse.- Dystonia Musculorum Deformans, Sprague-Dawley Rat with the Dystonic (dt) Mutation.- Motor End-Plate Disease, Mouse.- Jolting Mouse.- Parasitic Disease.- Sarcocystosis of the Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle, Mouse.- Bone.- Development.- Development of the Skeleton, Rat.- Neoplasms.- Osteoma, Spontaneous and Virus-Induced, Mouse.- Osteosarcoma of the Bone Experimentally Induced by Moloney Sarcoma Virus, Rat.- Osteosarcoma, Spontaneous and Chemically Induced, Rat.- Osteosarcoma, Spontaneous and Radiation-Induced, Mouse.- Chordoma, Rat.- Ameloblastic Odontoma of the Mandible, Rat.- Osteofibroma, Mouse.- Ossifying Fibroma, Mouse.- Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Soft Tissue and Bone, Rat.- Inherited Disorders.- Congenital Osteopetrosis, Mouse.- Congenital Osteopetrosis, Rat.- Hereditary Progressive Ankylosis, Mouse.- Bone Lesions, X-Linked Hypophosphatemic (Hyp) Mouse.- Toxic and Other Effects on Bone.- Hormonal Effects on Bone, Rat.- Lathyrogen-Induced Lesions of Bone, Rat.- Chondro-Osseous Lesions Induced by Adriamycin, Rabbit.- Osteopetrosis Induced by Retrovirus, Mouse.- Osteochondrosis, Rat.