The National BioResource Project for the Rat in Japan

Strain information

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NBRP Rat No: 0044
Strain name: NIG-III/Hok
Commmon Name: NIG-III
Principal Investigator:
Kazuhiro KitadaCreative Research Initiative "Sousei", Hokkaido University
Preservation Status:
Coat Color
yellow agouti (a,B,C,H,p<sup>m</sup>)
Inbred Generations
F33+84+23 (April 2012)
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Usage Restrictions
The recipient of BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE shall obtain a prior written consent on use of it from the DEPOSITOR.
For a commercial use of this resource, a new contract must be concluded between the depositor and the recipient.
Genetic Status
Comercial Availability
Research Category
Gene Affected
Origin
National Institute of Genetics(Ms)→Hokkaido University, Cancer 1975 F32→Hokkaido University, Laboratory of Experimental Animal Science(Hok) 1975, F33→Hokkaido University, Center for Experimental Plants & Animals(Hok) 1982, F53
Strain characteristics
From a mating in 1956 between a wild rat trapped in Misima, Japan, and Castle's black rat. pink-eyed dilution (p) mutation.
Breeding Conditions
Good breeding performance. Sib-mating.
Genotyping
References
Yoshihara M, Sato T, Saito D, Ohara O, Kuramoto T, Suyama M.
Application of target capture sequencing of exons and conserved non-coding sequences to 20 inbred rat strains.
Genomics Data. 2016 Dec; 10: 155-157

Igarashi M, Hippo Y, Ochiai M, Fukuda H, Nakagama H.
AKT is critically involved in cooperation between obesity and the dietary carcinogen amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo [4,5-b] (PhIP) toward colon carcinogenesis in rats.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2013 Dec 13. pii: S0006-291X(13)02128-1.

Kuramoto T, Gohma H, Kimura K, Wedekind D, Hedrich HJ, Serikawa T.
The rat pink-eyed dilution (p) mutation: an identical intragenic deletion in pink-eye dilute-coat strains and several Wistar-derived albino strains.
Mamm Genome. 16(9):712-9, 2005.
Additional strain information (Japanese only)