WKYO

Inbr. F29 (Kyo).

Colour: Albino,

Genet. c.

Origin: Inbred in 1980 from outbred Wistar Kyoto rats. Highly sensitive to the development of experimental glomerulonephritis following injection of nephritogenic antigen from bovine renal basement membrane (1/10) (Naito et al, 1991)

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Naito I., Kagawa M., Sado Y., and Okigaki T. (1991) Strain specific responses of inbred rats on the severity of experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis - presence of a broad- spectrum of the susceptibility. International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology 4, 145-154. \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