Wistar rats appear to be an interesting model to study the changes related to metabolic syndrome. They can have a lifespan of two to three years.
Long-Evans Hooded rats are an outbred strain from several female Wistar rats and a wild gray Norway rat by Drs. Long and Evans in 1915. Wistar rats are themselves an outbred strain of albino rats of the species "Rattus norvegicus" or Norway rat developed at th Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in 1906 for biological and medical use.
They achieve it at 100 days of maturity.
Frederick Baylon De'Brito has written: 'A study of the mechanisms of resistance to inflammatory stimuli in wistar rats'
Wistar Institute was created in 1892.
The budget of Wistar Institute is 48,578,000 dollars.
Caspar Wistar - physician - died in 1818.
Caspar Wistar - physician - was born in 1761.
William Wistar Comfort died in 1955.
William Wistar Comfort was born in 1847.
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs died in 1915.
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born in 1823.
John Wistar Simpson was born in 1914.