ORIGIN
Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for histocompatibility in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony of rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.
STRAIN CODE 091
COAT COLOR Non-agouti brown
RESEARCH APPLICATION
genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research
MHC HAPLOTYPE RT1n
ORDERING INFORMATION
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