Article
Atherosclerosis in genetically obese mice: the mutants obese, diabetes, fat, tubby, and lethal yellow.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 May 1994
Nishina P M, Naggert J K, Verstuyft J, Paigen B
Abstract excerpt
Mice with five different mutations conferring an obese or diabetic phenotype were evaluated for fatty streak lesions after consuming an atherogenic diet containing 15% fat and 1.25% cholesterol (wt/wt) for 14 weeks. The five mutations, fat, obese, tubby, diabetes, and lethal yellow, are maintaine...
Topics
- Animals
- Arteriosclerosis
- Cholesterol, HDL
- Diabetes Complications
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Lipids
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Obesity
- Phenotype