 Mole Rats
"Mole Rats" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Any of several burrowing rodents of the families MURIDAE and Bathyergidae, found in eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. They have short limbs, small eyes with permanently closed lids, and no tail. Three genera SPALAX (Muridae), Heterocephalus (Bathyergidae) and Cryptomys (Bathyergidae) are used frequently as experimental animals in biomedical research. (From Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th ed)
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D019577
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.992.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Mole Rats- Mole Rats
- Mole Rat
- Rat, Mole
- Rats, Mole
- Molerats
- Molerat
- Mole-Rats
- Mole-Rat
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mole Rats" by people in Profiles.
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McCullagh EA, Peacock J, Lucas A, Poleg S, Greene NT, Gaut A, Lagestee S, Zhang Y, Kaczmarek LK, Park TJ, Tollin DJ, Klug A. Auditory brainstem development of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber). Proc Biol Sci. 2022 08 10; 289(1980):20220878.
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Taguchi T, Kotelsky A, Takasugi M, Chang M, Ke Z, Betancourt M, Buckley MR, Zuscik M, Seluanov A, Gorbunova V. Naked mole-rats are extremely resistant to post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Aging Cell. 2020 11; 19(11):e13255.
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Seluanov A, Hine C, Azpurua J, Feigenson M, Bozzella M, Mao Z, Catania KC, Gorbunova V. Hypersensitivity to contact inhibition provides a clue to cancer resistance of naked mole-rat. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Nov 17; 106(46):19352-7.
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