Brattleboro

Etymology 1
From, named after Major-General.

Etymology 2
The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
 * 2) * 1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)
 * Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.