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Rats, Zucker

"Rats, Zucker" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Two populations of Zucker rats have been cited in research--the "fatty" or obese and the lean. The "fatty" rat (Rattus norvegicus) appeared as a spontaneous mutant. The obese condition appears to be due to a single recessive gene.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rats, Zucker" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Rats, Zucker" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2007
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