Rabbit bleeding apparatus - photo

**Jon** · Dec 21, 2020, 03:06 PM

Rabbit bleeding apparatus. For extracting antiserum.

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**wesser1** · Dec 21, 2020, 07:04 PM

Did anybody else read this as "Rabbit Breeding Apparatus" on first glance? For a second there I was thinking that this would be about the most unnecessary device ever invented...

**Fluffle-Valve** · Dec 22, 2020, 01:09 AM

And why do you need to bleed a rabbits ear?

**Moby Duck** · Dec 22, 2020, 03:47 AM

Me too, why do we need a device to bleed rabbits by the ear?

**wesser1** · Dec 22, 2020, 05:23 AM

Maybe the rabbits were lab animals and they needed to check the blood levels of a research medication?

**Unkle Fuzzy** · Dec 22, 2020, 08:16 AM

Rabbit blood is one of the animal models which most closely resembles human blood and is crucial for cancer research. Fitzgerald industries supplies glutaraldehyde-stabilized Rabbit Red Blood Cells for research purposes, which are supplied in a saline solution with sodium azide as a preservative.

Also

Thymoglobulin-Anti-thymocyte globulin (rabbit) injection is used together with other medicines to prevent and treat the body from rejecting a transplanted kidney.

This medicine is an immunosuppressant. When a patient receives an organ transplant, the body's white blood cells will try to get rid of (reject) the transplanted organ. Anti-thymocyte globulin (rabbit) works by preventing the white blood cells from doing this.