Nomenclature:Crl:NIH-Foxn1rnu
Coat Color:White, black, black and white
Origin:The NIH nude rat was developed in 1979–1980 through a series of matings involving 8 inbred rat strains. To Charles River from the National Institutes of Health in 2001. This athymic nude rat is T-cell deficient and shows depleted cell populations in thymus-dependent areas of peripheral lymphoid organs.
Ideal For:Tumor biology, immunology, and xenograft research