Brown Norway Rat

BN/Crl
Inbred
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Breeding Location

Brown Norway Rat Details

Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for histocompatibility in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony of rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.

Coat Color
Non-agouti brown
MHC Haplotype
RT1n
Strain Code
091
Ideal For
Genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research

Brown Norway Rat US Growth Chart

LOCATION: Raleigh
UNIT: R08
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Brown Norway Rat Details

Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for histocompatibility in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony of rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.

Coat Color
Non-agouti brown
MHC Haplotype
RT1n
Strain Code
091
Ideal For
Genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research

Brown Norway Rat Germany Growth Chart

Growth chart data should be used as a guideline only.
The shaded areas on each chart are the mean weight plus or minus one standard deviation at a given age averaged across all production facilities. This represents approximately 67% of the population, with the remaining 33% falling outside of this weight range.

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Brown Norway Rat Details

Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for histocompatibility in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony of rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.

Coat Color
Non-agouti brown
MHC Haplotype
RT1n
Strain Code
091
Ideal For
Genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research

Growth Chart for Brown Norway Rat Colony at Vital River Laboratories in China

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