The Jackson Laboratory

New body weight Information for B6.V-Lep^ob/J and BKS.Cg-m +/+ Lepr^db/J strains

JAX^® NOTES Issue 511, Fall 2008

New body weight information for JAX^® Mice strains B6.V-Lep^ob/J (000632) and BKS.Cg-m +/+ Lepr^db/J (000642), two strains widely used in obesity and diabetes research, are now available from Strain Data Sheets. The information includes growth curves for both males and females fed a chow diet containing 10% fat (LabDiet^® 5K20) from weaning to 20 weeks old.