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The role of sex and body weight on the metabolic effects of high-fat diet in C57BL/6N mice.
Nutrition & diabetes - 10 Apr 2017
Ingvorsen C, Karp N A, Lelliott C J
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BACKGROUND: Metabolic disorders are commonly investigated using knockout and transgenic mouse models on the C57BL/6N genetic background due to its genetic susceptibility to the deleterious metabolic effects of high-fat diet (HFD). There is growing awareness of the need to consider sex in disease progression, but limited attention has been paid to sexual dimorphism in mouse models and its impact in metabolic...
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