"Rats, Hairless" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mutant strains of rats that produce little or no hair. Several different homozygous recessive mutations can cause hairlessness in rats including rnu/rnu (Rowett nude), fz/fz (fuzzy), shn/shn (shorn), and nznu/nznu (New Zealand nude). Note that while NUDE RATS are often hairless, they are most characteristically athymic.
| Descriptor ID |
D054772
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.865.635.505.700.550.408
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