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Phenotypic consequences after restoration of lymphopenia in the diabetes-prone BB/OK rat.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 9 Oct 1997
Klöting I, Kovacs P, Kuttler B
Abstract excerpt
Besides other factors, lymphopenia (ll) is essential for development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the BB rat. It is unknown which phenotypic consequence may have a non-lymphopenia. Therefore, the region containing the lymphopenia gene of the BB/OK rat was replaced with that of the non-lymphopenic (LL) and hypertensive rat, SHR (11 cM, D4Mit6-LL-Npy-Spr). The resulting congenic strain, BB.LL, did not...
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