The contract provides for maintenance of a colony of approximately 40 strains of inbred mice by strict pedigreed brother-sister matings, breeding and developing new congenic mouse strains, making selective crosses and backcrosses between these strains, producing antisera by immunization between these strains, and performing quality control testing by serology and skin grafting of pedigreed animals in the colony.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Division of Cancer Biology And Diagnosis (NCI)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01CB025585-010
Application #
3603995
Study Section
Project Start
1982-03-01
Project End
1987-01-31
Budget Start
1986-07-16
Budget End
1986-04-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1986
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Bionetics Research, Inc.
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Kensington
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
20895
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Epstein, S L; Arn, J S; Sachs, D H (1986) Eight new MHC recombinant strains defining at least six H-2 haplotypes. Immunogenetics 24:135-8