Charles River Laboratories

Zucker rat (lean), Crl:ZUC-Leprfa

Code Zucker lean

With four kind of coat color lean Zucker rats arre mostly a control group for obese Zucker rats.

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Features

Nomenclature: Crl:ZUC-Lepr^fa

Type: Outbred

Origin: Lean Phenotype. The obese or fatty condition appeared spontaneously in the 13M strain maintained at the Laboratory of Comparative Pathology of Theodore and Lois Zucker in Stow, MA. Research colonies were established at many institutions from this nucleus colony. To Charles River in 1985 from a research colony maintained at a pharmaceutical company. The Zucker Rat (Lean) is the control model for the Zucker Rat (Obese).

Coat color: Four principal variants: 1. predominantly brown; 2. brown and white; 3. predominantly black; 4. black and white.

Strain codes: 86 (Lean)

Ideal for:Control for the Zucker Rat (Obese)

Bred in: US

Health reports: Using strain nomenclature find the strain at link below

animals health reports bred in Charles River US

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