Other laboratory animals

Golden Syrian Hamster
HsdHan^®:AURA

Golden brown and white. Colony established in 1994 with stock originating from Zentralinstitut fur Versuchstiere, Hannover, Germany. The source for the Hannover colony was the Sprague-Dawley Company in 1973.

 Han^® is a registered trademark of Envigo.

 * This species is bred in US only. Importation is subject to a Fish and Wildlife Declaration Fee.

 Characteristics

• Litter average: 9,0
• Excellent reproductive performance

Research use

• Syrian Hamster Embryo (SHE) Cell transformation assay
• Toxicology
• Carcinogenesis
• Behavior
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Infectious disease (Clostridium difficile)
• Hibernation

Other available data

• Hematology
• Clinical chemistry

 

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Cotton rat

Hsd:Cotton Rat

Color combination varies: gray, brown, black. Sigmondon hispidus (Cotton Rat) is a New World rodent that was developed by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Virion Systems, Inc. In 1996, Harlan obtained a breeding nucleus from Virion Systems, Inc. Harlan became Envigo in 2015.

* This specie is bred in US only. Importation is subject to a Fish and Wildlife Declaration Fee.

Characteristics

• Litter average: 5,5
• Susceptible to a wide range of human infectious disease agents

Research use

• Adenoviral vector-based gene therapy
• Infectious disease pathogenesis
• -  Respiratory syncytial virus
• -  Herpes simplex
• -  Parainfluenza type 3
•          -  Polio
•          -  Measles
•          -  Monkey pox