Abstract

The impairment of glucose metabolism may lead to type 2 diabetes and the malfunction of lipid metabolism contributing to metabolic syndrome, which increases risk of heart disease, vascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Our previous study provided evidence for involvement of hepatic glucose metabolic disorder in onset and progress of diabetes in Spontaneously Diabetic Torii (SDT) rats. As it is increasingly important to elucidate the mechanism of onset of diabetes and to develop drugs to prevent diabetic pathological progress, SDT rat should offer a highly useful model of spontaneous diabetic onset for such studies. In addition, abnormality in triglyceride (TG) absorption and impaired lipid catabolism antecedent to hypoinsulinemia/hyperglycemia seem to cause postprandial hypertriglyceridemia in SDT rat; hence, the characteristics of lipid metabolism in SDT rat can be useful in studies of diabetic hypertriglyceridemia and TG metabolism.

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