Sentences with phrase «livers of diabetic mice»

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Instead of slimming down, the mice developed low blood sugar, diabetic tendencies, and fatty livers worthy of pâté.

The U-M study explains how increased cAMP in fat cells promotes the secretion of the hormone interleukin - 6, which signals the liver to stop producing glucose — thus improving overall blood sugar levels in obese diabetic mice.

They then inserted the DNA encoding this analogue into a virus that had been rendered harmless, incorporated the region of the liver cell that responds to glucose, and injected the modified virus into diabetic mice and rats.

In our previous study we found that a high fat diet containing comparable amounts of soybean oil to what Americans are currently consuming caused mice to become obese, diabetic and insulin resistant and to have large lipid droplets and hepatocyte ballooning in their livers.