WHHL Rabbit. A Heritable Animal Model of Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Watanabe, Y.; Tsujita, Y.; Izumi, A.

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Y. Watanabe,
Y. Tsujita &
A. Izumi

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WHHL rabbit is short for the Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipidemic rabbit. This strain has been inherited by inbreeding a mutant of hyperlipidemic rabbit found in Japanese white rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus Var. domesticus).

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Medizinische Klinik, Bergheimer Str. 58, 6900, Heidelberg, Germany
F. Gotthard Schettler , Gert Middelhoff , Andreas J. R. Habenicht & Klara R. Jurutka , , &
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 77030, Houston, Texas, USA
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Watanabe, Y., Tsujita, Y., Izumi, A. (1983). WHHL Rabbit. A Heritable Animal Model of Familial Hypercholesterolemia. In: Schettler, F.G., Gotto, A.M., Middelhoff, G., Habenicht, A.J.R., Jurutka, K.R. (eds) Atherosclerosis VI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81817-2_24

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