Lifelong obesity in a polygenic mouse model prevents age- and diet-induced glucose intolerance- obesity is no road to late-onset diabetes in mice
Visceral obesity holds a central position in the concept of the metabolic syndrome characterized by glucose intolerance in humans. However, until now it is unclear if obesity by itself is responsible for the development of glucose intolerance. We have used a novel polygenic mouse model characterized...
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Veröffentlicht in: | PloS one 2013-11, Vol.8 (11), p.e79788-e79788 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Visceral obesity holds a central position in the concept of the metabolic syndrome characterized by glucose intolerance in humans. However, until now it is unclear if obesity by itself is responsible for the development of glucose intolerance.
We have used a novel polygenic mouse model characterized by genetically fixed obesity (DU6) and addressed age- and high fat diet-dependent glucose tolerance.
Phenotype selection over 146 generations increased body weight by about 2.7-fold in male 12-week DU6 mice (P |
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ISSN: | 1932-6203 1932-6203 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0079788 |