Histological Atlas of the Laboratory Mouse

The Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ducted with very large numbers of mice, and mice proved to was organized in 1946 for the purpose of studying the imme­ be especially suitable for cancer induction studies. diate and long-term implications of man's exposure to ioniz­ As this work progressed, we became convinced that a ing radiation. The program that developed concentrated on strong histology department was needed to prepare the tis­ the basic mechanism of the effects in