| 摘要 |
The invention relates to an atrichia mouse which grows juvenile hair but is deficient in the ability to grow pelage hair and, more particularly, to an atrichia mouse such that the spontaneous prevalence of wet and dry skin lesions is not less than 70% at the 24th week of age, the number of mast cells in the skin is not less than about 50/linear mm at the 24th week of age, and the serum IgE level is not less than about 3500 ng/ml at the 24th week of age. The atrichia mouse of the invention finds application as an animal model of disease for the research and development of therapeutic drugs for dermatitis, among other kinds of drugs.
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