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Differential effects of leptin receptor mutation on male and female BBDR Gimap5-/Gimap5- spontaneously diabetic rats.
Physiological genomics - 3 Mar 2010
Moralejo Daniel H, Hansen Carl T, Treuting Piper, Hessner Martin J, Fuller Jessica M, Van Yserloo Brian, Jensen Richard, Osborne William, Kwitek Anne E, Lernmark Ake
Abstract excerpt
Rodents homozygous for autosomal leptin receptor gene mutations not only become obese, insulin resistant, and hyperleptinemic but also develop a dysregulated immune system. Using marker-assisted breeding to introgress the Koletsky rat leptin receptor mutant (lepr-/lepr-), we developed a novel congenic BBDR.(lepr-/lepr-) rat line to study the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the BioBreeding (BB)...
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