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High juvenile body weight and low insulin levels as markers preceding early diabetes in the BB rat.
Autoimmunity - 1 Jan 1994
Pedersen C R, Bock T, Hansen S V, Hansen M W, Buschard K
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes incidence in BB rats is 60-80% and our aim was to investigate whether it is possible to characterize those rats destined to develop diabetes. While the genetic background as well as the environmental factors affecting BB-rat littermates are very similar, body weight reflects some existing variance. The study involved 151 BB rats, and the body weight of each animal was measured daily from birth....
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