Preferred Label : WKY, Rat Strain;
NCIt synonyms : WKY Rat Strain;
NCIt related terms : WISTAR KYOTO; WKY;
NCIt definition : An outbred Wistar substrain derived at Kyoto school of medicine and disseminated to
the NIH in 1971 and finally to Charles River in 1974. The Wistar Kyoto is a white
albino with pink eyes, genotype c. This rat strain is used in cardiac and behavioral
research and as a control for studies involving the spontaneous hypertensive rat.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: An outbred Wistar substrain derived at Kyoto school of medicine and disseminated
to the NIH in 1971 and finally to Charles River in 1974. The Wistar Kyoto is a white
albino with pink eyes, genotype c.;
Origin ID : C76192;
UMLS CUI : C0034709;
Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
