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The albino laboratory rat with its red eyes and white fur is an iconic model organism for scientific research in a variety of fields
Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies Rattus norvegicus domestica which are bred and kept for scientific research. While less commonly used for research than laboratory mice, rats have served as an important animal model for research in psychology and biomedical science.[1]
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Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies Rattus norvegicus domestica which are bred and kept for scientific research. While less commonly...
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread...
of the rat genome sequence, and other advances, such as the creation of a rat SNP chip, and the production of knockout rats, the laboratoryrat has become...
The fancy rat (Rattus norvegicus domestica) is the domesticated form of Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat, and the most common species of rat kept as a...
developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software. The story follows a laboratoryrat with the ability to rewind time; players use a variety of moves to the...
Alexander and his colleagues built Rat Park, a large housing colony 200 times the floor area of a standard laboratory cage. There were 16–20 rats of both...
World Day For Animals In Laboratories (WDAIL; also known as World Lab Animal Day) is observed every year on 24 April. The surrounding week has come to...
The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea or the rat flea, is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus...
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usually performed with rodents. During sleep deprivation studies, a laboratoryrat is housed in a water filled enclosure with a single small, dry platform...
NIH via the Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium, resulting in the draft sequence of a laboratory strain of the brown or Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)...
he was put on a mattress on a table in the middle of a room. A white laboratoryrat was placed near Albert and he was allowed to play with it. At this point...
Steven H.; Franklin, Craig L. (eds.). The LaboratoryRat (2 ed.). Amsterdam Boston: American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (AP). p. 304/pp. 304–337/xvi+912...
respectively, a less or more attractive person. Performance example: A laboratoryrat will work faster, or slower, during a stimulus predicting a given amount...
(1952). "Studies on the cytology and life history of a Giardia from the laboratoryrat". U. C. Publications in Zoology. 5sex7 (2). Berkeley CA: University...
The Brattleboro rat is a strain of laboratoryrat descended from a litter born in West Brattleboro, Vermont in 1961 without the ability to produce the...
for clothing, as pets, and as laboratory animals in research. Some species, in particular, the brown rat, the black rat, and the house mouse, are serious...
Lister laboratoryrat. A cat's prominent macrovibrissae. Micrograph cross section of an equine vibrissa. Macrovibrissae of a tiger. Laboratory mouse (C57BL/6)...
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digestive tract, whereas after a diet of betel leaves alone, only one laboratoryrat developed a forestomach papilloma. Multiple studies demonstrate that...
Spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is a laboratoryrat which is an animal model of primary hypertension, used to study cardiovascular disease. It is...
S2CID 41546146. Painter TS (March 1928). "A Comparison of the Chromosomes of the Rat and Mouse with Reference to the Question of Chromosome Homology in Mammals"...
Dr. Charles Kenneth Gunn discovered a mutant rat in 1934 at the Connaught Laboratory in Toronto, Canada. These rats were jaundiced and the defect (a lack...
Experimental Modeling and Research Methodology", The LaboratoryRat (Second Edition), American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Burlington: Academic Press...
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