"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)
| Descriptor ID |
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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| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 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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Can you dig it? The impact of a movable substrate "dig pit" on naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) behavior and welfare. Zoo Biol. 2024 Sep-Oct; 43(5):470-480.
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Carotid body responses to O2 and CO2 in hypoxia-tolerant naked mole rats. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2022 10; 236(2):e13851.
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The naked mole-rat exhibits an unusual cardiac myofilament protein profile providing new insights into heart function of this naturally subterranean rodent. Pflugers Arch. 2017 Dec; 469(12):1603-1613.