Development and verification of a mouse model for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery with a small gastric pouch.

Existing mouse models of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery are not comparable to human RYGB in gastric pouch volume for a large or absent gastric volume. The aim of this study was to develop and characterize a mouse RYGB model that closely replicates gastric pouch size of human RYGB surgery of...

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Main Authors: Zheng Hao, Zhiyun Zhao, Hans-Rudolf Berthoud, Jianping Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3543411?pdf=render