BDVI.

Inbr. ?+F50.

Colour: Black

Genet. a, C, H, P.

Origin: see BDI.

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Characteristics

About 4% of spontaneous peripheral nerve tumours, with cystic schwannomas being the most frequent type. The morphology and immunohistochemistry of 24 spontaneous and 28 ethylnitrosourea-induced tumours has been described by Turusov and Cabral, (1994).

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Turusov V. S. and Cabral J. P. R. (1994) S-100 protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in experimentally-induced and spontaneous tumors of peripheral-nerves in BDVI rats - light-microscopic and immunohistochemical study. Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology 46, 343-353. \par

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INBRED STRAINS OF RATS
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester, UK