Big brains and blood glucose: Common ground for diabetes mellitus in humans and healthy dolphins

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 390-395

  Venn Watson, Stephanie K ^a   Ridgway, Sam H ^a,b  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; BRAIN SIZE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTAKE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; BRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548850054     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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