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Plasma metabolomics supports non-fasted sampling for metabolic profiling across a spectrum of glucose tolerance in the Nile rat model for type 2 diabetes.
Lab animal - 1 Nov 2023
Anderson Benton J, Curtis Anne M, Jen Annie, Thomson James A, Clegg Dennis O, Jiang Peng, Coon Joshua J, Overmyer Katherine A, Toh Huishi
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Type 2 diabetes is a challenge in modern healthcare, and animal models are necessary to identify underlying mechanisms. The Nile rat (Arvicanthis niloticus) develops diet-induced diabetes rapidly on a conventional rodent chow diet without genetic or chemical manipulation. Unlike common laboratory models, the outbred Nile rat model is diurnal and has a wide range of overt diabetes onset and diabetes progression...
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