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AGE IN WEEKS |
MALE |
FEMALE |
3 or 4 |
$12.50 |
$13.90 |
5 or 6 |
$15.15 |
$16.30 |
7 to 9 |
$16.75 |
$18.40 |
10 Weeks and Over - Call for Pricing |
Female with Litter-8 pups |
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$98.00 |
Pregnant-Untimed |
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$70.00 |
Pregnant-Timed |
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$115.00 |
Retired Breeder |
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$13.00 |
The Balb/c mouse originated in 1923 by McDowell.
It is a popular strain and is used in many different
research disciplines, but most often in the production
of monoclonal antibodies. Also classified as an
inbred from the production of 20 or more successive
brother-sister matings, the Balb/c mouse is albino
and small in size.
Strain characteristics related to the Balb/c mouse
include:
- Low alcohol preference
- Low incidence of mammary tumors
- Resistance to atherosclerosis development when
fed an atherogenic diet.
- High incidence of cardiac calcification, especially
in males.
- Overall higher incidence of heart defects and
spontaneous myocardial lesions of the right ventricle.
- Generally good breeding performance, with low
incidence of barbering.
- Sensitivity to radiation.
- Low incidence of ovarian cysts.
- Moderate hearing loss usually occurs before
one year of age.
- Average litter size of 5-7pups and weaning
occurs at 19 days of age.
*Strain
Origin: To Ace from Taconic Farms,
Inc., Germantown, NY to Ace in 1995.
Color: Albino
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