Abstract
THE simplest and most widely used method for blood sampling in the mouse is to snip off the tip of the tail with scissors1 but the effect of serial tail snipping on white blood corpuscle count has not, as far as we know, been reported in the literature.
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JYVÄSJÄRVI, S., KEINÄNEN, S. & RUUSKANEN, O. Leucocytosis in the Mouse induced by Serial Blood Sampling from the Tail. Nature 230, 122–123 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230122b0
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