Exploring human diseases through rats in medical lab studies

Clinical Biochemistry, Medical Microbiology, Medical Parasitology, Hematology, Immunohematology, Cytology, Histopathology, and other disciplines are studied in medical laboratory technology. Rats are important in some of these areas because their physiology and genetic makeup are so similar to humans’. While human and rat biology differ, the similarities provide students with a powerful and versatile mammalian system to identify human-related diseases.

Animal studies are commonly used to answer complex questions about disease progression and other biological mechanisms of a whole living system that would be unethical, morally unacceptable, or technically impossible to conduct on human subjects. Rats account for approximately 95% of all warm-blooded laboratory animals. These and other species’ contributions help students answer questions about human cells, tissues, and organs.

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