METHOD FOR BLOOD SAMPLING IN NUTRIA Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: veterinary medicine.

SUBSTANCE: animal should be placed onto the cage so that its hind limbs to be in loose position and its fore limbs and abdominal part to be on the cage, then animal should be fixed by its neck to perform rapid circular movements with its head for temporal loss of coordination, from 4^th or 5^th toes of hid limb one should cut off the nail by capturing soft tissue at the angle of 45 deg. against the plane of plantar side of the pad to sample the blood into the tube with 5%-sodium citrate solution at 1:10 ratio against blood taken. The method enables to exclude spasmodic blood vessels and blood clotting in vessels-capillaries.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of blood sampling.

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