Origin
Kumamoto University School of Medicine> Slc (1983)
Strain characteristics
Animal model of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), adjuvant-induced arthritis (AIA), experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).
References
Yoshimi K, Kaneko T, Voigt B, Mashimo T.
Allele-specific genome editing and correction of disease-associated phenotypes in rats using the CRISPR-Cas platform.
Nat Commun. 5:4240, 2014.
Kuramoto T, Nakanishi S, Ochiai M, Nakagama H, Voigt B, Serikawa T.
Origins of Albino and Hooded Rats: Implications from Molecular Genetic Analysis across Modern Laboratory Rat Strains.
PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43059.