Male and female mice of the following inbred strains from The Jackson Laboratory were used: 129S1/SvImJ, A/J, AKR/J, BALB/cByJ, BTBR/J, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, C57L/J, DBA/2J, FVB/NJ, NOD/LTJ, NZB/B1NJ, PERA/EiJ, and PL/J. All mice were received at ≈45 days of age and housed in the animal facilities of the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center for a minimum of 2 weeks before beginning the experiments. The experiments were conducted in two passes that consisted of different strains (n = 6 per sex per strain) within each pass, but 12 C57BL/6J and 12 DBA/2J mice were included in each pass to determine any effects of pass.
