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A new inbred Wistar-Kyoto rat substrain exhibiting apparent salt sensitivity and borderline hypertension.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Sept 2002
Alemayehu Adamu, Breen Laura, Printz Morton P
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The normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat strain is a traditional control for the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). We found trait differences between two inbred normotensive WKY strains, derived originally from different vendors, and compared these two strains from La Jolla-Taconic Farms (WKY/lj-tf) and La Jolla-Charles River (WKY/lj-cr) with the inbred SHR/lj-cr for cardiovascular, diurnal, and activity...
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