You are what you eat, or are you? the challenges of translating high-fat-fed rodents to human obesity and diabetes

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Lai, M ^a   Chandrasekera, P C ^a   Barnard, N D ^a,b  

^a PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID DIET; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT MODEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84927712360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2014.30     Document Type: Review

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