"Rats, Long-Evans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An outbred strain of rats developed in 1915 by crossing several Wistar Institute white females with a wild gray male. Inbred strains have been derived from this original outbred strain, including Long-Evans cinnamon rats (RATS, INBRED LEC) and Otsuka-Long-Evans-Tokushima Fatty rats (RATS, INBRED OLETF), which are models for Wilson's disease and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, respectively.
| Descriptor ID |
D020318
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.992.635.505.700.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Rats, Long-Evans- Rats, Long-Evans
- Long-Evans Rats
- Long Evans Rats
- Evans Rats, Long
- Rats, Long Evans
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