Strain information
 NBRP Rat No: 0007  Strain name: KHR/Kyo  Commmon Name: KHR, kaken hairless rat Rat Genome Database
Principal Investigator:  Tadao Serikawa  Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University       Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku    606-8501 Kyoto     JAPAN
Tel: 075-753-4360    Fax: 075-753-4409 Email: serikawa@anim.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Preservation Status:   Embryo        Sperm       Living Animals ../images/Photos/KHR(khr_khr)/351a%20(Large).jpg ../images/Photos/KHR(khr_khr)/351z%20(Large).jpg
Coat Color  albino (c,p)
Inbred Generations  F36+31 (March 2012)
Usage Restrictions  
Genetic Status
 Inbred  Segregating  Congenic  Consomic  Recombinant
 Coisogenic  Spont. Mutant  Transgene  Ind. Mutant  Category Other 
Comercial Availability
Research Category
 Diabetes Obesity  Neurobiology  Ophthalmology  Dentistry  Cardio Hypertension
 Cancer  Metabolism  Otorhinology  Immunology  Infectious
 Osteosis  Internal Organ  Dermatology  Reproduction  Development
 Behavior  Hematology  Urology  Pharmacology  Research Area Others 
 Control Strain  Marker Strain
Gene Affected
Origin Kaken hairless rat were detected by Kimura from Gunn's rat at Kaken Pharmaceuticals in 1987. 2002 introduced to Kyoto University (F36).
Strain characteristics Hairless. This strain has deletion mutation in Oca2, pink-eyed dilution (Kuramoto, 2005). A 80-kb deletion was identified in the region containing five basic keratin (krt) genes (Kuramoto, 2010). (Jul 4, 2011)
Breeding Conditions Heterozygous female and homozygous male are mated.
Genotyping
References 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. 2005 Sep;16(9):712-9.

Takashi Kuramoto, Satoshi Nakanishi, Ken-ichi Yamasaki, Kenta Kumafuji, Yuichi Sakakibara, Yuki Neoda, Akiko Takizawa, Takehito Kaneko, Mito Otsuki, Ryoko Hashimoto, Birger Voigt, Tomoji Mashimo and Tadao Serikawa
Genetic Quality Control of the Rat Strains at the National Bio Resource Project-Rat
ibc.2010 Volume 2 Article no. 0012
Additional strain information KHR