Japanese
 NBRP Rat No: 0018 Strain Name: WAG/RijKyo Commmon Name: Wistar Albino Glaxo
 Principal Investigator  Tadao Serikawa
 Organization   Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Institute of Laboratory Animals
 Address  Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku

606-8501 Kyoto

  JAPAN
 Telephone  075-753-4360  Fax:  075-753-4409  serikawa@anim.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 Inbred Generations   F?+87 (March 2012) 
   
 Coat Color
 Deposition Status
 
 albino (c)
  Embryo      Sperm      Live Animals
 Usage Restrictions   
 Genetic Status   Inbred   Segregating   Congenic   Consomic    Recombinant 
  Coisogenic   Spont. Mutant    Transgene   Ind. Mutant    Others 
 Comercial Availability   
 Research Category   Diabetes Obesity    Neurobiology    Ophthalmology    Dentistry    Cardio- Hypertension 
  Oncology   Metabolism   Otorhinology    Immunology    Infectious Disease
  Osteology    Internal Medicine   Dermatology   Reproduction    Development
  Behavior    Hematology    Urology   Pharmacology   Others 
  Control Strains   Reporter gene Strains  
 Gene
 Origin This strain is a model for absence epilepsy in humans which was created from Wistar rat at the Glaxo Laboratories in London. Rij > Kyo (1979, F?, GF) 
 Strain Characteristics absence-like seizures 
 Breeding Conditions Good breeding performance. Sib mating. 
 Genotyping  
 References  Serikawa T, Mashimo T, Kuramoto T, Voigt B, Ohno Y, Sasa M.
Advances on Genetic Rat Models of Epilepsy.
Exp Anim. 64(1):1-7, 2015.

Coenen AM, Drinkenburg WH, Inoue M, van Luijtelaar EL.
Genetic models of absence epilepsy, with emphasis on the WAG/Rij strain of rats.
Epilepsy Res. 1992 Jul;12(2):75-86.