Tolbutamide Test: A Misleading Response
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Response of a diabetic strain of mouse to oral tolbutamide.
Search is constantly going on to find an animal with diabetes mellitus like features so that a model akin to human diabetes is available for screening of potential hypoglycemic agents of both plant and synthetic origin. The KK strain of mice was discovered by Nakamura (1). Nakamura (1) has shown by carrying out glucose tolerance tests on 28 KK strain of mice that the majority show a blood sugar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5457.343