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Establishment of a new animal model of metabolic syndrome: SHRSP fatty (fa/fa) rats.
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Jan 2000
Hiraoka-Yamamoto Junko, Nara Yasuo, Yasui Naomi, Onobayashi Yuko, Tsuchikura Satoru, Ikeda Katsumi
Abstract excerpt
1. We established a new animal model of metabolic syndrome, SHRSP fatty (fa/fa) rats, by crossing stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats of the Izumo strain (SHRSP/Izm) to Zucker fatty (ZF) (fa/fa) rats. 2. The SHRSP fatty (fa/fa) rats have a missense mutation of the leptin receptor gene and plasma leptin concentrations are augmented. The SHRSP fatty (fa/fa) rats develop obesity and hypertension...
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