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1Department of Physiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Abstract:
The introduction of the golden hamster as a laboratory animal was initiated by Prof. Saul Adler F.R.S., who sought a laboratory animal susceptible to infection with Leishmania. His friend and colleague Prof. Israel Aharoni succeeded in collecting a family of hamsters in Syria, with the aid of a hunter by the name of Georgius. The animals were brought to Jerusalem and were bred by Mr. Haim Ben-Menahem, Director of the Hebrew University Animal House. All the hamsters in the laboratory are the descendants of this family.
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