Animal Models of Diabetes

This new edition of Animal Models of Diabetes provides researchers with updated and expanded information regarding the use models in experiments with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. It compiles relevant timesaving information on most, if not all, current well-recognized models for both types of diabetes, including various mice, rats, minipigs and Rhesus monkeys, and provides extensive references for more in-depth study. Among several other topics, it discusses nutritionally diabetes-prone animals, and considerations of insulin resistance and obesity. It also addresses the importance of recent findings on pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications in relation to human disease.