Spontaneous diabetes mellitus in the New Zealand white rabbit: history, classification, and genetic analysis.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109343

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Spontaneous diabetes mellitus in the New Zealand white rabbit: history, classification, and genetic analysis.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Conaway H H, Brown C J, Sanders L L, Cernosek S F, Farris H E, Roth S I

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A colony of NZW rabbits was developed in which 18 of 126 members exhibited overt symptoms of diabetes mellitus. On the basis of total body weight measurements, obesity does not appear to play a primary role in the development or manifestation of the syndrome. The relatively high frequency of occu...

Topics

Animals
Body Weight
Diabetes Mellitus
Disease Models, Animal
Female
Glucose Tolerance Test
Hyperglycemia
Inbreeding
Male
Obesity
Phenotype
Rabbits

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