Article
Transplantable glucagonomas derived from pluripotent rat islet tumor tissue cause severe anorexia and adipsia.
Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1995
Madsen O D, Karlsen C, Blume N, Jensen H I, Larsson L I, Holst J J
Abstract excerpt
From pluripotent pancreatic rat islet tumor tissue we have previously reported the isolation of stable transplantable glucagonoma tumor phenotypes in rats characterized by acute onset of anorexia. We now report that these tumors also cause severe adipsia. Food and water intake is reduced by more than 95% and is immediately cured upon tumor removal. Four anorectic tumor lines were all characterized as glucagonomas...
Topics
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Body Weight
- Drinking
- Eating
- Glucagon
- Glucagonoma
- Islets of Langerhans
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Obese
