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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 occurrence of spontaneous diabetes mellitus in this colony seems to suggest a unique genetic predisposition of these...
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