The Dahl/ Salt Sensitive Rat is one of the various rodents used in animal research. This specific rat is used in research in hypertension, diastolic heart failure, and nephropathy. These albino rats are maintained at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has undergone considerable marker-selected breeding to eliminate residual heterozygosity and genetic contamination. -Jaila H. Dahl/Salt Sensitive Rat SS/JrHsdMcwiCrl. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.criver.com/products-services/basic-research/find-a-model/dahl-salt-sensitive-(dahl-ss)-rat
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The zebra-fish which can mend its own heart muscle is providing clues to heart failure, which affects 750,000 people in the United States. Zebra-fish are important to biomedical science and have increasingly become the research animal of choice. They have a fully functioning, simple heart and circulatory system that is easy to study because they are semi-transparent. Additionally, if part of a zebra-fish’s heart is removed, they can grow it back in a matter of weeks. Scientists are working to find out what specific factors enable zebra-fish to regenerate damaged tissue in the hope that this can be applied to humans. The ability to repair damaged heart tissue could lead to a vast increase in quality of life for people who have damaged hearts, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure or diabetes. ~ Nadir T. Benefits of Zebra-Fish. (2014, November 19). Retrieved April 26, 2017, from http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/why/human-health/heart-disease-and-zebrafish/