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Pulmonary tuberculosis in spontaneously diabetic goto kakizaki rats.
The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine - 1 Oct 2004
Sugawara Isamu, Yamada Hiroyuki, Mizuno Satoru
Abstract excerpt
As a clinical association is thought to exist between diabetes and tuberculosis, this study was set up to examine whether GK/Jcl diabetic rats are more susceptible to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection than non-diabetic rats. GK/Jcl diabetic rats were infected aerially with M. tuberculosis and their capacity to control mycobacterial growth, granuloma formation, cytokine secretion by alveolar macrophages and...
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