Inbred Strains
of Rats: AS2
Inbr. F60+.
Colour: Albino.
Genet: c.
Origin: Outbred rats at the University of Otago Medical School, to Dept.
of Surgery 1963 at F22-24. Not histocompatible with AS (Heslop
1968).
Characteristics
Slightly higher blood pressure than in outbred albinos (
Heslop and Phelan 1973). High secondary antibody response
to the polypeptide (T,G)-Pro-Lys (3/20) (Günther et al 1976).
Heslop
B. F. and Phelan E. L. (1973) The GH and AS hypertensive rat strains.
Lab. Anim. 7, 41-46.
Heslop B. F. (1968)
Histocompatibility antigens in the rat: The AS2 strain in relation to
the AS, BS and HS strains. Aust. J. Exp. Biol. Med. Sci. 46,
479-491.
INBRED STRAINS OF RATS
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW
Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester,
UK
Analysis Tools