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Diet-induced obesity in two C57BL/6 substrains with intact or mutant nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (Nnt) gene.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Oct 2010
Nicholson Anthony, Reifsnyder Peter C, Malcolm Rachel D, Lucas Charlotte A, MacGregor Grant R, Zhang Weidong, Leiter Edward H
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The C57BL/6J (B6/J) male mouse represents a standard for diet-induced obesity (DIO) and is unique in expressing a loss-of-function nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (Nnt) gene. This mutation was associated with a marked reduction in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion from B6/J islets in...
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