"Rats, Sprague-Dawley" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A strain of albino rat used widely for experimental purposes because of its calmness and ease of handling. It was developed by the Sprague-Dawley Animal Company.
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D017207
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.992.635.505.700.750
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| 2006 | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| 2007 | 0 | 48 | 48 |
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| 2010 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
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| 2014 | 0 | 47 | 47 |
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| 2019 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2020 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2021 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2022 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2025 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rats, Sprague-Dawley" by people in Profiles.
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Local Delivery of Non-opioid Analgesic Microparticles to Modulate Post-surgical Pain. Pharm Res. 2025 Sep; 42(9):1573-1585.
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Limosilactobacillus reuteri enables oral-to-systemic absorption of iberiotoxin for treatment of collagen-induced arthritis in rats. Microb Cell Fact. 2025 Aug 02; 24(1):177.
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Sensory-selective Peripheral and Neuraxial Nerve Blockade with 2',6'-Pipecoloxylidide. Anesthesiology. 2025 Nov 01; 143(5):1296-1312.
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Drug development studies supporting zileuton as a parenteral adjuvant to attenuate antibiotic-associated nephrotoxicity. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2025 08 06; 69(8):e0028725.
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Maternal nitrate supplementation improves offspring cardiometabolic outcomes in obese pregnancies. Ann Med. 2025 Dec; 57(1):2521440.
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Comparison of the proteomic landscape in experimental ischemia reperfusion with versus without ischemic preconditioning. Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 07; 15(1):11836.
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