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Anophthalmia (congenital absence of eyeball) is a rare congenital defect seen in laboratory animals of different species1–6 as well as in humans.7 Several instances of hereditary anophthalmia have been reported,3–6 where both unilateral and bilateral anophthalmic phenotypes have been found. Anophthalmia is also known to result as a teratogenic effect of drugs.7,8 Such teratogenic anophthalmia reported for laboratory rats was found to be bilateral as well as unilateral.8 Our institution has recently isolated a strain of mutant anophthalmic rats that were derived from a parent colony of inbred CFY rats.6
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De, P.K. (1998). Aberrant Lacrimal Gland Development in an Anophthalmic Mutant Strain of Rat. In: Sullivan, D.A., Dartt, D.A., Meneray, M.A. (eds) Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film, and Dry Eye Syndromes 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 438. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_9
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