WKY, Rat Strain

**Semantic type:** Mammal

**Definition:** An outbred Wistar substrain derived at Kyoto school of medicine and disseminated to the NIH in 1971 and finally to Charles River in 1974. The Wistar Kyoto is a white albino with pink eyes, genotype c. This rat strain is used in cardiac and behavioral research and as a control for studies involving the spontaneous hypertensive rat.

**Synonyms:** - WISTAR KYOTO - WKY - Wistar Kyoto