Animal models of diabetes
Subtitle: a primer
By: edited by Anders A.F. Sima and Eleazar Shafrir.
Contributors: Sima, Anders A. F.; Shafrir, Eleazar.
Series: Frontiers in animal diabetes research -- v. 2.
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Diabetes -- Animal models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autoimmune diabetes mellitus in the BB rat; title: The NOD mouse and its related strains; title: Obesity/diabetes in mice with mutations in the leptin or leptin receptor genes; title: The Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rat; title: KK and KKAÞ mice; title: The obese spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHROB, Koletsly rat): a model of metabolic syndrome X; title: Characteristics of Wistar Fatty rat; title: The New Zealand obese mouse: a polygenic model of type 2 diabetes; title: The NSY mouse: an animal model of human type 2 diabetes mellitus with polygenic inheritance; title: The Goto-Kakizaki rat; title: The OLETF rat; title: The JCR:LA-cp rat: an animal model of obesity and insulin resistance with spontaneous cardiovascular disease; title: The neonatally streptozotocin-induced (n-STZ) diabetic rats, a family of NIDDM models; title: Galactosemic animal models; title: The rhesus monkey (Macac mulatta): a unique and valuable model for the study of spontaneous diabetes mellitus and associated conditions; title: Psammomys obesus: primary insulin resistance leading to nutritionally induced type 2 diabetes; title: The C57BL/6J mouse as a model of diet-induced type 2 diabetes and obesity.