Starvation for 5 days in type1 and type2 mice look to restart the pancreas cells.

Bluetit1802 said:

I have a question about mice.

Were these Type 1 mice genuinely type 1 or made type 1 artificially? How the heck did they find genuine type 1 mice and is type 1 prevalent among mice? It has to have been done artificially in my mind, and if so, did that process work properly, or did it interfere in some way with the experiment? I know laboratory mice are specially bred, but ......

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Bluetit1802 said:

I have a question about mice.

Were these Type 1 mice genuinely type 1 or made type 1 artificially? How the heck did they find genuine type 1 mice and is type 1 prevalent among mice? It has to have been done artificially in my mind, and if so, did that process work properly, or did it interfere in some way with the experiment? I know laboratory mice are specially bred, but ......

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ickihun said:

I refuse to fast unless medically supervised due to past problems.

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Bluetit1802 said:

I have a question about mice.

Were these Type 1 mice genuinely type 1 or made type 1 artificially? How the heck did they find genuine type 1 mice and is type 1 prevalent among mice? It has to have been done artificially in my mind, and if so, did that process work properly, or did it interfere in some way with the experiment? I know laboratory mice are specially bred, but ......

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AdamJames said:

I can't find specific reference in this particular experiment, but it does talk about a Type 1 mouse 'model', so I'd guess they used one of the techniques mentioned here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855847/

So yes, not very satisfying. And, poor mice.

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