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The SHR strain was derived by selective inbreeding from the Kyoto outbred Wistar colony, and both SHR and SHRSP, as well as WKY strains have been maintained over many generations through brother-sister matings http://rgd.mcw.edu/tools/strains [ 43 44 ] . Healthy WKA and GH rat strains were also generated from outbred Wistar rat strains, but these strains were isolated independently in Japan and New Zealand, respectively (and maintained at other sites as well).
Currently, there are no appropriate genetic controls available, as SHR, SHRSP and WKY are all maintained as colonies by brother-sister matings.
Since the initial germ line chimera, the line has been bred back to C57BL/6 for over 5 generations and there have been several generations of sibling matings.
Embryos were collected from timed heterozygous matings.
The GH rat was selected for systolic hypertension that increased with successive generations and maintained through filial matings [ 45 ] . In view of this, the Gly583Cys missense mutation of Abcg5 might result from occurrence of a de novo mutation during breeding at the stage of developing inbred WKY strains and propagated into the SHR and SHRSP lines.