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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 14.
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 1.

Recommended dose of ENU for different inbred mouse strains, modified from Justice et al 2000 and Weber et al 2000.

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)
FVB/N 1 × 150 147 75% (n=4)
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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.