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Opening Remarks (Ota)
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... A paper concerning international reference strains of rats, entitled "Establishment and Preservation of Reference Inbred Strains of Rats for General Purpose Use," was published in 1991 in ILAR News (Nomura and Potkay 1991~. International standardization of rats was thus undertaken, first by the US/Japan Cooperative Program and subsequently by the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS)
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... This current meeting has a new format, and I would like to see the topics discussed at these meetings expand in the future. I hope that useful information will be exchanged by both sides and that this information exchange will continue.
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