Species

Therapeutic Area

Highlighted

Wistar Kyoto (WKY) Rat

WKY/NCrl

WKY
AT A GLANCE

Coat Color

Albino

Strain Code

008

Haplotype

RT1I

Ideal For

control for the SHR rat, ADHD model

Produced In

Germany, United States
Description

Developed from an outbred Wistar stock from Kyoto School of Medicine to NIH 1971. This is the same stock from which the SHR/N strain was developed. To Charles River in 1974 from NIH at F11.