Animal Models of Diabetes: Frontiers in Research, 2nd edition

Autoimmune diabetes, present status of knowledge in animals and the implications for the understanding and preventing of human type 1 diabetes. Diabesity in ob/ob and db/db mice: the use of these models for studies of diabetes and obesity in humans. The Zucker diabetic fatty rat: lessons from leptin receptor deficiency. The Goto-Kaizaki diabetic rat evolved by selective inbreeding. Then NSY mouse, an animal model with human type 2 diabetes with polygenic inheritance. The new Zealand obese mouse, a polygenic model of type 2 diabetes, metabolic abnormalities without single genetic mutation. The OLETF rat, spontaneous interaction of diabetes and obesity and the associated nephropathy. The JCR: Lacp rat a model of obesity, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease. The neonatally sterptozotocin induced diabetic rat: a family of type 2 diabetes like animal models. The rhesus monkey (Macaca Mulatta) a model for the study of gradual development of diabetes on ad libitum nutrition. The desert gerbil, Psammomys obesus: molecular mechanisms of the nutritionally induced diabetes, and its prevention; validity for study of factors underlying the prevalent diabetes epidemic, related to affluent nutrition. The C57BL6J mouse, a model of diet induced type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. The obese, spontaneously hypertensive SHROB, Koletzky rat: a model for human metabolic syndrome. The diabetic minipig, sharing physiologic and digestion characteristics with the human. The spontaneously diabetic Torii (SDT) rat with human resembling retinopathy lesions.