Senescence-accelerated mouse (SAM): a novel murine model of senescence.

doi:10.1016/s0531-5565(96)00036-8

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Senescence-accelerated mouse (SAM): a novel murine model of senescence.

Experimental gerontology - 1 Jan 2000

Takeda T, Hosokawa M, Higuchi K

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The Senescence-Accelerated Mouse (SAM) has been under development by our research team at Kyoto University since 1970 through the selective inbreeding of the AKR/J strain of mice donated by the Jackson Laboratory in 1968, based on a graded score for senescence, life span, and pathologic phenotype...

Topics

Aging
Animals
Mice
Mice, Inbred AKR
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Time Factors

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