Laboratory rat
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"Lab rat" redirects here. For other uses, see Lab rat (disambiguation).
Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies Rattus norvegicus domestica which are bred and kept for scientific research. While less commonly used for research than laboratory mice, rats have served as an important animal model for research in psychology and biomedical science.[1]