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Repeated Blood Collection from Tail Vein of Non-Anesthetized Rats with a Vacuum Blood Collection System
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Here, we describe a simple tail vein blood sampling method in non-anesthetized rats using a vacuum extraction tube system. This method reduces the risk of direct exposure to blood and simplifies taking multiple samples from a single venipuncture.
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Zou, W., Yang, Y., Gu, Y., Zhu, P., Zhang, M., Cheng, Z., Liu, X., Yu, Y., Peng, X. Repeated Blood Collection from Tail Vein of Non-Anesthetized Rats with a Vacuum Blood Collection System. J. Vis. Exp. (130), e55852, doi:10.3791/55852 (2017).
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