Are diabetic rats and mice resistant to porcine and human insulin : flawed experimental models for testing islet xenografts?
Our results suggest that restoration of normoglycemia in diabetic rodents is not ideal for testing porcine islets xenografts since the reversals of diabetes in these species requires 20 to 40 times the dose of porcine insulin used in humans.
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