Erschienen in:
01.07.2007 | Research Letter
The BioBreeding rat diabetes model is infected with Ljungan virus
verfasst von:
Bo Niklasson, T. Hultman, R. Kallies, M. Niedrig, R. Nilsson, P.-O. Berggren, L. Juntti-Berggren, S. Efendic, A. Lernmark, W. Klitz
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 7/2007
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Excerpt
To the Editor: A useful tool for understanding the pathogenesis of human diseases has been the use of animal models. The BioBreeding (BB) rat has been a useful source of knowledge for type 1 diabetes, with over 1,400 publications recorded in PubMed. We now present evidence that this animal model is infected with a picornavirus. …