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Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2011;770:10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_12. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_12

Table 11.3.

Recommended dose of ENU for different inbred mouse strains, modified from (28, 29).

Inbred mouse strain	Recommended Dose (mg/kg)^*	No. days of sterility	Percent regained fertility
A/J	3 × 90	74-113	90% (n=10)
BALB/cJ	3 × 100	89-154	83% (n=6)
BTBR/N	1 × 150-200	70-210	50-83% (ND)
C3He/J	3 × 85	96-148	70% (n=10)
C3HeB/FeJ	3 × 75	89-142	90% (n=10)
C57BL/6J	3 × 100	90-105	80% (n=10)

The doses are recommended based on the least amount of death and shortest period of sterility. For details and alternate doses, see the original papers. ND=no data.