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WKY, Rat Strain
An outbred Wistar substrain derived at Kyoto school of medicine and disseminated to the NIH in 1971 and finally to Charles River in 1974. The Wistar Kyoto is a white albino with pink eyes, genotype c. This rat strain is used in cardiac and behavioral research and as a control for studies involving the spontaneous hypertensive rat. (NCI Thesaurus)
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