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• Retained features of embryonic metabolism in the adult MRL mouse

  Publication

  • R. K. Naviaux
  • T. H. Le
  • K. Bedelbaeva
  • J. Leferovich
  • D. Gourevitch
  • P. Sachadyn
  • X. Zhang
  • C. Lise
  • H. Ellen

  - MOLECULAR GENETICS AND METABOLISM - Year 2009

  The MRL mouse is an inbred laboratory strain that was derived by selective breeding in 1960 from the rapidly growing LG/J (Large) strain. MRL mice grow to nearly twice the size of other commonly used mouse strains, display uncommonly robust healing and regeneration properties, and express later onset autoimmune traits similar to Systemic Lupus Erythematosis. The regeneration trait (heal) in the MRL mouse maps to 14-20 quantitative...

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