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Rats, Long-Evans

"Rats, Long-Evans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rats, Long-Evans" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Rats, Long-Evans" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 309 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2011
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