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Inbred Strains of Rats: K

K

Inbr.F40+.

Colour: Albino.

Genet: c.

Origin: Dr. E. Matthies, Halle-Wittenberg 1958 from outbred Wistar stock.. Low spontaneous tumour incidence (less that 0.5%). Good breeding performance. Weight at 100 days 290g in males and 200g in females. Developed for resistance to a range of transplantable tumours (Matthies and Ponsold 1973).


Matthies E. and Ponsold W. (1973) Zur \'86 bertragung der Resistenz gegen Impftumoren bei Ratten. Z. Krebsforsch. 80, 27-30.


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

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