“Swiss Albino” are available through our facilities in the pune region, India.
The widely distributed Swiss albino mice, largely non inbred, are mainly derived from two males and seven females which Clara J. Lynch of the Rockefeller Institute obtained from A. de Coulon of Lausanne in 1926 (Lynch, 1961, personal communication).
Swiss Albino is usually used in toxicology studies. It is not often used in R&D studies. Swiss being an outbred animal, is suitable for toxicology as it has variability between animals. However, if you take other inbred animals such as BALB/c, C57BL/6, etc, they are very similar and you would not have so much variations between animals.
The colony is maintained in a full barrier with an SPF status, and our Swiss Albino are free of Swiss Albino Cytomegalovirus (GpCMV).
Colony health testing is performed according to FELASA recommendations.
- Extensively used for decades as an all-purpose stock for research and drug safety testing
- Often used as recipient mother in transgenic labs due to its superior nurturing ability
- Swiss Webster females (SW-F) are also ideal pseudopregnant recipients for embryo transfers of black and agouti mouse lines
- Available at Murine Pathogen Free™, Excluded Flora, and Germ Free health profiles (Order model #SW for Murine Pathogen Free™ and Excluded Flora. Order model #GF-SW for Germ Free.)
Origin:
Taconic received the Swiss Webster outbred model from the Rockefeller Institute through Rockland Farms, Inc. in 1940. The mice have been maintained as a closed colony since 1951. The mice were derived by caesarean from randomly chosen breeders and reintroduced into a Barrier Nucleus Expansion Colony in 1965-1969. The mice were derived by caesarean in 1983 from randomly chosen breeders from all Taconic’s barrier units.
Please contact us for pricing and availability of our Swiss Albino in your region.