Diabetes
Findings in Diabetes Reported from T. Shimada and Co-Researchers
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 5th, 2011
2011 SEP 5 -- "It is known that the metabolic syndrome has a multi-factorial basis involving both genetic and environmental risk factors. In this study, Tsumura Suzuki Obese Diabetes (TSOD) mice, a mouse model of multi-factorial, hereditary, obese type II diabetes, were given a Western diet (WTD) as an environmental factor to prepare a diseasemodel (TSOD-WTD) and to investigate the preventive effects of Pine bark extract (Flavangenol) against obesity and various features of metabolic disease appearing in this animal model," researchers in Saga, Japan report.
"In contrast to control Tsumura Suzuki Non-obesity (TSNO) mice, TSOD mice were obese and suffered...
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