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1Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, PO Box 4755, Syracuse, NY 13221, USA. richard.diters@bms.com
Veterinary Pathology
|May 11, 2007
Abstract:
A spontaneous case of unilateral true hermaphroditism was observed during the routine necropsy of a 9-week-old presumed female Sprague-Dawley rat on a repeat-dose toxicity study. There were no drug-related effects observed. True hermaphroditism is rare in rats, and despite the large numbers of rats examined annually, few cases are reported in the literature.

