High juvenile body weight and low insulin levels as markers preceding early diabetes in the BB rat.

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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

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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 existin...

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Age of Onset
Animals
Biomarkers
Blood Glucose
Body Weight
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Female
Insulin
Islets of Langerhans
Male
Phenotype
Radioimmunoassay
Rats
Rats, Inbred BB

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