Preferred Label : SS, Rat Strain;
NCIt synonyms : SS Rat Strain;
NCIt related terms : SS; DAHL-S;
NCIt definition : Derived by Rapp from a colony of Sprague-Dawley rats that were initially derived by
LK Dahl at Brookhaven National Laboratories. The SS rat strain has been selected for
its acute salt sensitivity, leading to the development of hypertension, diabetes,
nephropathy, cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure, cholesterolemia, hyperinsulinemia,
hypertriglyceridemia. This rat strain is used as an animal model in the study of human
hypertension.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Derived by Rapp from a colony of Sprague-Dawley rats that were initially derived
by LK Dahl at Brookhaven National Laboratories. The SS rat strain has been selected
for its acute salt sensitivity.;
Origin ID : C76186;
UMLS CUI : C2699257;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
