Charles River Laboratories
Brown Norway rat, BN/Crl
Code BN RAT
Brown Normway rat model for wide applications in genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunctions, aging, transplantation research.
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Features
Nomenclature: BN/Crl
Type: Inbred
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.
Coat color:Non-agouti brown
Strain code: 091
Ideal for: Genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research.
Bred in: Germany, US
Health reports: Using strain nomenclature find the strain at links below
- animals health reports bred in Charles River Germany
- animals health reports bred in Charles River US
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