Psammomys Obesus: Nutritionally induced insulin resistance, diabetes, and beta cell loss

Animal Models of Diabetes, Second Edition: Frontiers in Research

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 289-310

  Ziv, Ehud ^a   Kalman, Rony ^a   Shafrir, Eleazar ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

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