Rapid development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in Psammomys obesus (Israeli sand rat).

Rapid development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in Psammomys obesus (Israeli sand rat).

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A major impediment to establishing new treatments for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is the lack of suitable animal models that accurately mimic the biochemical and metabolic characteristics of the disease. The aim of this study was to explore a unique polygenic animal model of m...

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Main Authors: Briana Spolding, Timothy Connor, Carrie Wittmer, Lelia L F Abreu, Antony Kaspi, Mark Ziemann, Gunveen Kaur, Adrian Cooper, Shona Morrison, Scott Lee, Andrew Sinclair, Yann Gibert, James L Trevaskis, Jonathon D Roth, Assam El-Osta, Richard Standish, Ken Walder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3961405?pdf=render

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