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SUBMITTER: Kim KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3509183 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Kyoung Soo KS Oh Da Hee DH Kim Jung Yeon JY Lee Bong Gn BG You Jeong Soon JS Chang Kyung Ja KJ Chung Hyun Ju HJ Yoo Myung Chul MC Yang Hyung In HI Kang Ja Heon JH Hwang Yoo Chul YC Ahn Kue Jeong KJ Chung Ho Yeon HY Jeong In Kyung IK
Experimental & molecular medicine 20121101 11
This study aimed to determine whether taurine supplementation improves metabolic disturbances and diabetic complications in an animal model for type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether taurine has therapeutic effects on glucose metabolism, lipid metabolism, and diabetic complications in Otsuka Long- Evans Tokushima fatty (OLETF) rats with long-term duration of diabetes. Fourteen 50-week-old OLETF rats with chronic diabetes were fed a diet supplemented with taurine (2%) or a non-supplemented cont ...[more]