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New mutant rabbit strain with hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerotic lesions produced by serial inbreeding.
Laboratory animal science - 1 Aug 1995
Kurosawa T, Kusanagi M, Yamasaki Y, Senga Y, Yamamoto T
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the characteristics of the Kurosawa and Kusanagi hypercholesterolemic (KHC) rabbit, a strain manifesting inherited and persistent hypercholesterolemia and produced by inbreeding from mutants discovered in 1985. These KHC rabbits had abnormally high serum cholesterol, triglyceride, and phospholipid concentrations 8 to 10 times greater than the concentrations in clinically normal Japanese white...
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