PERA

Inbr. F40-F50 (1989). Origin: Seven breeders trapped by Olga Atteck in 1961 in Peru for Dr. Margaret Wallace. At about generation 15 in 1971 stock was passed to Drs. T.H. Roderick and Eva Eicher, who maintained separate stocks, PERA/CanRk and PERA/CamRk. Moderate susceptibility to experimental allergic encephalomyelitis with late onset (10/10), high severity (2/10), high mortality (1/10) and high incidence of spontaneous relapse (3/10) (Lindsey, 1996).

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Lindsey J. W. (1996) Characteristics of initial and reinduced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Immunogenet. 44, 292-297.

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