Correlation of disease severity with body weight and high fat diet in the FATZO/Pco mouse.

Obesity in many current pre-clinical animal models of obesity and diabetes is mediated by monogenic mutations; these are rarely associated with the development of human obesity. A new mouse model, the FATZO mouse, has been developed to provide polygenic obesity and a metabolic pattern of hyperglycem...

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Main Authors: Brian A Droz, Bria L Sneed, Charles V Jackson, Karen M Zimmerman, M Dodson Michael, Paul J Emmerson, Tamer Coskun, Richard G Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179808