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Title
"Control" laboratory rodents are metabolically morbid : why it matters
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Abstract
Failure to recognize that many standard control rats and mice used in biomedical research are sedentary, obese, glucose intolerant, and on a trajectory to premature death may confound data interpretation and outcomes of human studies. Fundamental aspects of cellular physiology, vulnerability to oxidative stress, inflammation, and associated diseases are among the many biological processes affected by dietary energy intake and exercise. Although overfed sedentary rodents may be reasonable models for the study of obesity in humans, treatments shown to be efficacious in these animal models may prove ineffective or exhibit novel side effects in active, normal-weight subjects.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - Washington, D.C.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : 2010
ISSN
0027-8424 [Print]
1091-6490 [Online]
DOI
10.1073/PNAS.0912955107
Volume/pages
107 :14 (2010) , p. 6127-6133
ISI
000276374400004
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