Inbred Strains
of Mice: CC57W
Inbr: F79. Albino. Genet:
a, b, c. Origin: Same as CC57BR.
Characteristics
No spontaneous mammary tumours, but 55% after introduction of mammary tumour
virus (
Heston, 1963). Life-span average about
15.5 months (
Medvedev, 1969).
Heston W. E. (1963)
Genetics of neoplasia, in Methodology in mammalian genetics (Burdette
W. J., ed), pp. 247-268. Holden-Day, San Francisco.
Medvedev N. N.
(1969) Inbreeding, fertility and viability. Sov. Genet. 5,
376-387.
INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW
Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester,
UK
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