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Wistar rat. The Wistar rat is an outbred albino rat. This breed was developed at the Wistar Institute in 1906 for use in biological and medical research, and is notably the first rat developed to serve as a model organism at a time when laboratories primarily used the house mouse (Mus musculus).
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Twelve school districts in Bucks County recently split the cost of $272,630 to tear down a vacant, century-old research lab where biologists created the world-famous Wistar Rat for the University ...
Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), physician and anatomist, grandson of the glassmaker. Isaac J. Wistar (1827-1905), Union general and penologist. Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named after the physician. Wistar rat, a strain of albino laboratory rats developed at the institute.
Rats become sexually mature at age 6 weeks, but reach social maturity at about 5 to 6 months of age. The average lifespan of rats varies by species, but many only live about a year due to predation. [11] The black and brown rats diverged from other Old World rats in the forests of Asia during the beginning of the Pleistocene. [12]
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Spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is a laboratory rat which is an animal model of primary hypertension, used to study cardiovascular disease. It is the most studied model of hypertension measured as number of publications. [ 1 ]