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Article: New comparative medicine study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Sao Paulo.(Report)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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"Spontaneous dwarf rats are a useful experimental model for studying various biologic events associated with pituitary dwarfism. Dwarf rats occurred serendipitously in our colony of Wistar rats during experimental breeding," scientists in Sao Paulo, Brazil report (see also Comparative Medicine).
"This study aimed to describe the sleep pattern and physiologic characteristics of these rats compared with normal-sized adult rats. Because growth hormone can attenuate the upregulation of ceruloplasmin expression caused by acute inflammation, we also assessed the basal levels of serum ceruloplasmin in these animals. At 90 d of age, body weight and length were ...