Inbred Strains
of Mice: NBL
Inbr: 91. Genet:
a. Origin: Probable contamination of C57BL/10Sc;
should not be considered a C57BL substrain.
NIH
Black.
Characteristics
Low erythrocyte catalase activity (18/18) (
Hoffman
and Rechigl, 1971). Susceptible to amyloid induction (1/10) (
Ram et al., 1969, 1969). Good reproductive performance
with 2.4 young/female/ month (3/24) (
Hansen
et al., 1973., 1973).
Hansen
C. T., Judge F. J., and Whitney R. A. (1973) Catalog of NIH rodents.
National Institutes of Health. DHEW publication (NIH) 74-606, Bethesda.
Hoffman
H. A. and Rechcigl M. Jr. (1971) Erythrocyte catalase in inbred mice.
Enzyme 12, 219-225.
Ram J. S., Dehellis
R. A., and Glenner G. G. (1969) Amyloid. VIII on strain variation in experimental
murine amyloidosis. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 130, 462-464.
INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW
Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester,
UK
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