Invited review: HXB/BXH rat recombinant inbred strain platform: A newly enhanced tool for cardiovascular, behavioral, and developmental genetics and genomics

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2510-2522

  Printz, Morton P ^a   Jirout, Martin ^a,b   Jaworski, Rebecca ^a   Alemayehu, Adamu ^a   Kren, Vladimir ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arterial pressure; Gene map; Heart rate; Malformation phenotype; Quantitative trait loci; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANXIETY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MODEL; GENOMICS; HABITUATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RATE; INBRED STRAIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT STRAIN; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRESS; TASTE AVERSION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; FETUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYDACTYLY; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FETUS; GENETICS; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOMICS; POLYDACTYLY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED SHR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037840360     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00064.2003     Document Type: Review

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