Inbred Strains
of Rats: MSUBL
Inbr. F23+.
Colour: Black.
Genet. a.
Origin: Dr. Stroyeva, Institute of Developmental Biology, Moscow from a
cross of wild rats x MSU microphthalmic rats obtained from Dr Brouman,
Montana State University. Selected for high incidence of microphthalmia
(Borodin 1977).
Characteristics
High incidence of microphthalmia and anophthalmia. High reactivity of
adrenals to ACTH (1/4). Rokhlin et al (
1971)
reported on immunoglobulin allotypes.
Borodin P. M. (1977)
Strains. Rat News Lett. 1, 49.
Rokhlin
O. V., Vengerova T. I., and Nezlin R. S. (1971) RL allotypes of light
chains of rat immunoglobulins. Immunochemistry 8, 525-538.
INBRED STRAINS OF RATS
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW
Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester,
UK
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