A Novel Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes: The Zucker Fatty Diabetes Mellitus ZFDM Rat
Figure 4
Serum lipid parameters and adipokines of the ZFDM strain. Fasting serum levels of (a) total cholesterol, (b) HDL cholesterol, (c) LDL cholesterol, (d) triglyceride, (e) phospholipid, (f) nonesterified fatty acid, (g) leptin, and (h) adiponectin of fa/fa () and fa/+ (, 6, 5, 5, and 6 for 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24 weeks of age, resp.) male rats in the ZFDM strain. Welch’s t test was used for comparisons between fa/fa and fa/+ rats.
