Pro-oxidant challenge in vivo provokes the onset of NIDDM in the insulin resistant obese Zucker rat

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-271

  Laight, David W ^a   Desai, Kaushik M ^a   Gopaul, Nitin K ^a   Änggård, Erik E ^a   Carrier, Martin J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insulin resistance; NIDDM; Obese Zucker rat; Oxidant stress

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; ANTIOXIDANT; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROQUINONE; INSULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULINEMIA; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROQUINONES; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; OBESITY; OXIDANTS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER;

EID: 0032853533     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702801     Document Type: Article

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