Life Span and Spontaneous Tumors Incidence of the Wistar Mishima (WM/MsNrs) Rat.
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Accession number;03A0376736
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| Title;Life Span and Spontaneous Tumors Incidence of the Wistar Mishima (WM/MsNrs) Rat. |
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FUKUDA S
(National Inst. Radiological Sci., Chiba, Jpn)
IIDA H
(National Inst. Radiological Sci., Chiba, Jpn)
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Journal Title;Exp Anim
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Journal Code:Z0755A
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ISSN:1341-1357
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VOL.52;NO.2;PAGE.173-178(2003)
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| Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.1, TBL.5, REF.24 |
| Pub. Country;Japan |
| Language;English |
| Abstract;The life spans and spontaneous tumors in a total of 1960 Wistar Mishima (WM/MsNrs) rats, inbred strain, from the 80-130th generations were examined. The average life span (mean.+-.SD) was 731.+-.173 days (n=1053) in the males and 813.+-.214 days (n=907) in the females (p<0.0001). The average life span of tumor-afflicted females was significantly longer than that of the non-tumor group (p<0.0001), while no such difference was observed in males. Tumors were observed in 33 males (3.1%) and 246 females (27.1%). In the males, tumors were often observed under the skin (2.2%). Frequencies of tumors in lung and liver, bones and intestine were less than 0.5%. In the females, incidence of mammary tumor was 20.1%, and various organs such as ovaries, uterus, bones, lung, and liver had tumor incidence frequencies of less than 3.5%. It was concluded that WM/MsNrs rats might be suitable for life span and age-related studies because of their characteristics of length of longevity and the low incidence of spontaneous tumors in both sexes. (author abst.) |
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