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These have been modelled by transgenesis (Ittner and Götz, 2007), almost exclusively in mice, as reviewed recently (Götz and Ittner, 2008), although there are a few transgenic rat models available (Zilka et al., 2006; Koson et al., 2008).

Rats are commonly used for in-vivo investigations, and numerous rat models are available for studying both ocular and cardiovascular diseases [ 15– 17].

Although there are numerous studies on cerebral ischemia in rat models, there are no data available about how 2ME2 affects renal I/R injury.

Like mice, rats are relatively low-cost laboratory animals that are easy to house and handle, but, unlike mice, naturally occurring OA is extremely uncommon in rats and, although the technology to generate transgenic and knockout lines is advancing in other fields (Huang et al., 2011), transgenic rat models of OA are not yet available.

Among the various animal models available for study of the lymphatic transport of small molecules, a rat model with a cannulated mesenteric lymph duct is widely used.

Given that available data was skewed towards rodent models: 13 arrays for mouse and rat models and 4 arrays for pig and human models, there was a need for species bias correction.

There are sleeker models available.

There is no shortage of such role models available.

Rat models of S. epidermidis osteomyelitis are less common [41].

We re-explored these routes in rat models of hypoxemia.

Moreover, in contrast to several well defined and characterized experimental podocyte disease models in rats such as the passive Heymann nephritis, puromycin nephrosis, the remnant kidney model and others [5], the number of mouse models available to study podocyte diseases are limited in number, and are also substantially less well defined.