SHR

Inbr (Dn) 59. Colour ?. Origin: E.L.Green from shm (shambling) mutation which arose in outbred stock in 1960. Crossed with C57BL/6J, C3HeB/FeJ and finally to a Re (rex) stock. Strains SHM and SHM/2 from same cross discontinued in 1970 and 1977.

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Characteristics

Homozygotes have abnormal gait, small body size, are infertile, and have phospholipid-like material deposited in the central nervous system. Maint. by Dn.

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