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NIH Swiss and Black Swiss mice have retinal degeneration and performance deficits in cognitive tests.
Comparative medicine - 1 Aug 2005
Clapcote Steven J, Lazar Noah L, Bechard Allison R, Wood Geoffrey A, Roder John C
Abstract excerpt
Swiss mice are among the most commonly used outbred strains in biomedical research. Because prior knowledge of the baseline phenotypes of mouse strains will allow informed selection of strains for particular experiments, we sought to characterize the behavior of two previously untested outbred Swiss strains--NIH Swiss and Black Swiss--in the two most widely used paradigms for evaluating the cognitive abilities of...
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