Rats and hamsters are the most commonly used animal models for evaluating the hypocholesterolemic activity of potential probiotic strains, whereas little or no information has been reported on whether the animal models would affect the experimental conclusions regarding the hypocholesterolemic efficacy of the strains.

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仓鼠是一种比大鼠更好的模型系统，可用于评估潜在益生菌菌株的降胆固醇功效

大鼠和仓鼠是用于评估潜在益生菌菌株的降胆固醇活性的最常用动物模型，而关于该动物模型是否会影响该菌株降胆固醇功效的实验结论的报道很少或没有报道。