{"created":"2023-06-19T07:18:05.988593+00:00","id":3224,"links":{},"metadata":{"_buckets":{"deposit":"2ab15834-55b4-4a66-aabb-1618441f5721"},"_deposit":{"created_by":4,"id":"3224","owners":[4],"pid":{"revision_id":0,"type":"depid","value":"3224"},"status":"published"},"_oai":{"id":"oai:az.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003224","sets":["370:15:392"]},"author_link":["16283","16284"],"item_10006_date_granted_11":{"attribute_name":"学位授与年月日","attribute_value_mlt":[{"subitem_dategranted":"1995-02-01"}]},"item_10006_degree_grantor_9":{"attribute_name":"学位授与機関","attribute_value_mlt":[{"subitem_degreegrantor":[{"subitem_degreegrantor_name":"麻布大学"}]}]},"item_10006_degree_name_8":{"attribute_name":"学位名","attribute_value_mlt":[{"subitem_degreename":"博士(獣医学)"}]},"item_10006_description_22":{"attribute_name":"Abstract","attribute_value_mlt":[{"subitem_description":"Abstract\n The characteristic features of OLETF rats are 1) late onset of hyperglycemia (after 18 weeks of age), 2) a chronic course of disease, 3) mild obesity, 4) clinical onset of diabetes mellitus (DM) mostly in males, 5) hereditary trait a); multiple recessive genes are involved in the induction of DM, b); rat MHC, RT1 has no diabetogenic effect, c); control strain, LETO appears to share some of diabetogenic genes with OLETF rats, d); female OLETF rats also carry diabetogenic genes, and e); one of the diabetogenic genes, designated as ODB-1, is transmitted linked with the X-chromosome of OLETF rats, however testosterone is an important factor involved in developing diabetes. 6) the changes of pancreatic islets can be classified into three stages: (1) an early stage (at less than 9 weeks of age) mild lymphocyte infiltration, (2) a hyperplastic stage (10-40 weeks of age); hyperplastic change and fibrosis in or around islets, (3) a final stage (at more than 40 weeks of age) showing atrophy of islets. 7) Diabetic nephropathy; after wk 50, glomeruli of OLETF rat enlarged, diffuse glomerulosclerosis, nodular glomerulosclerosis, the fibrin cap lesion, capsular drop lesion.\n These clinical and pathologic features of disease in OLETF rats resemble those of human NIDDM.\n\nIntroduction\n We have reported a new inbred strain of Long-Evans Tokushima Lean (LETL) rats with IDDM without lymphopenia (1). This LETL strain was established in 1989 from an outbred colony of Long-Evans rats that had been purchased from Charles River Canada Inc. From the same colony of rats, we established another inbred strain of rats, Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF), that develops spontaneous persistent hyperglycemia (2). In this paper, we report here that pathophysiological characteristics and genetic profiles of the OLETF rats. The value of this strain as an animal model of human type 2 diabetes is discussed.\n\nEstablishment of OLETF strain\n A spontaneously diabetic rat with polyuria, polydipsia and mild obesity was discovered in 1984 in an outbred colony of Long-Evans rats, which had been purchased from Charles River Canada (St.Constant, Quebec, Canada) in 1982. A strain of rats developed from this rat by selective breeding has since been maintained at the Tokushima Research Institute (Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan) and named Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF). Selective brother-sister matings were then started using males of more than 400g and apparently normal females at 9-10 weeks old. The males used for mating were examined by the OGTT at 25 weeks old, and normal glucose toleranced rats and their offspring were killed. \n The LETO line was obtained by different original matings from those for OLETF rats, but both strain originated from the same colony of Long-Evans rats. The LETO line has not shown the diabetic syndrome.\n\nClinical features\n Male OLETF rats began to gain weight faster than LETO rats from 5 weeks and the difference gradually increased with age, being about 200g at 40 weeks of age. Then in the early stage of diabetes mellitus (DM) with glycosuria, the body weight decreased slightly, the decrease becoming more prominent with increase in severity of DM. After the onset of glycosuria at 40 weeks, water and food intakes and urine production increased gradually, and after persistent glycosuria for more than 10 months, the rats showed marked polyphagia, polydipsia and polyuria. However, they survived and death from diabetes was very rare.\n\nIncidence of DM\n The cumulative incidences of male rats with diabetic or IGT type were 86.0% (301/350) or 9.7% (34/350), respectively, after the 20th generation. However, incidence of DM in female OLETF was 33.3% at 65 wk-old.\n\nBiochemical analysis\n The plasma glucose level of male OLETF rats became higher than that of LETO rats from 18 weeks. The triglyceride level increased from 8 weeks. The plasma cholesterol level became slightly higher than that of control rats. At 30 weeks of age, the level of plasma glucose was twice that of controls, and the plasma triglyceride level was 5 times that of controls, whereas the plasma cholesterol level was elevated only slightly. At 40 weeks of age, the plasma cholesterol level was 4.73±O.68mM in OLETF rats and 2.71±O.15mM in LETO rats and the plasma triglyceride level was 6.45±2.26mM in OLETF rats and 1.31±O.35mM in LETO rats, both differences being highly significant (P