4.7 Article Proceedings Paper

Humanized mice for the study of type 1 and type 2 diabetes

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BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06318.x

Keywords

diabetes; humanized mice; animal models; islets

Funding

  1. VA Research Service
  2. National Institutes of Health research [AI46629, DK72473, DK66636, DK68854]
  3. Beta Cell Biology Consortium [DK72473, DK89572]
  4. Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center [DK59637]
  5. Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center [DK20593]
  6. University of Massachusetts Institutional Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (DERC) [DK32520]
  7. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
  8. Helmsley Foundation

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The availability of immunodeficient mice engrafted with functional human immune systems and islets permits in vivo study of human diabetes without putting patients at risk.

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