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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedOdd-Looking Pig Focus of Research Into Diabetes, Infertility, Heart Disease.
AScribe Health News Service, March, 2006
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite the exaggerated, wrinkly snout and long, coarse, spiky hair reminiscent of the 1980s television space alien ALF, some very special swine are helping researchers at Purdue and Indiana universities understand human infertility, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
In addition to their odd appearance, these Ossabaw pigs are predisposed to metabolic syndrome. The disease includes a host of health problems, including obesity, insulin resistance leading to Type 2 (mellitus/adult-onset diabetes), hypertension, artery-clogging bad cholesterol and triglycerides, and abnormally high blood clotting. Many of these same features are characteristic of polycystic ovary syndrome,...
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