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Establishment of two substrains, diabetes-prone and non-diabetic, from Long-Evans Tokushima Lean (LETL) rats.
Endocrine journal - 1 Dec 1998
Komeda K, Noda M, Terao K, Kuzuya N, Kanazawa M, Kanazawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus in Long-Evans Tokushima Lean (LETL) rats closely resembles type 1 diabetes in human beings, e.g., no gender differences in the incidence of diabetes and no T lymphopenia. Although the LETL rats have been established as an inbred strain, the incidence of diabetes is only approximately 20%. In the present study, we established two substrains, one a diabetes-prone (KDP) and the other a non-diabetic...
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