“…In some variations of the method, the tail is cut at 1 to 5 mm from the tip (Maroney et al, 2012;Sambrano, Weiss, Zheng, Huang, & Coughlin, 2001;Tranholm et al, 2003), while in others the tail is amputated at 1 to 4 mm tail diameter (Holmberg, Lauritzen, Tranholm, & Ezban, 2009;Ivanciu & Camire, 2015). The measurable parameters are: bleeding time, measured as cessation of blood flow due to hemostatic plug formation, and total blood loss, measured as the hemoglobin content of blood.…”