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BALB/c
Laboratory-bred strain of the house mouse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BALB/c is an albino, laboratory-bred strain of the house mouse from which a number of common substrains are derived. Now over 200 generations from New York in 1920, BALB/c mice are distributed globally, and are among the most widely used inbred strains used in animal experimentation.[1]
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