title: [Appearance and metabolic development of diabetes mellitus in the sand rat, Psammomys obesus].
abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the long-term effects of synthetic chow diet on the metabolic pattern of diabetic syndrome in a large group of sand rats. Few animals had a fulminating reaction with markedly decreased glucose tolerance, low plasma insulin levels and death within 3-4 weeks. But the most of sand rats developed obesity and elevated plasma insulin levels. From the third month, 40% of sand rats presented a diabetic syndrome with hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, markedly decreased glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. Plasma lipids were increased; the lipid and glycogen accumulation in the liver was high. So this diabetic syndrome can be compared to maturity onset diabetes. If this synthetic chow diet lasted more than 6 months, the most of animals lost considerable weight with a strong lipid depletion of fat stores. Serum immunoreactive insulin levels fall and the blood glucose rose over 500 mg/100 ml with glycosuria and ketonuria . The elevated triglyceride content of plasma and the lipid deposits in the liver were exaggerated; glycogen had disappeared. Animals developed an overtly insulin- dependent diabetes, the latter phase of the disease. The sand rat appears to us as a potentially interesting model for investigation both maturity onset and ketotic-type diabetic syndrome.
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae / Q000378:metabolism*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D006029:Glycosuria / Q000662:veterinary; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000662:veterinary; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin
vernacular_title: Apparition et évolution métabolique du diabète sucré chez le rat des sables, Psammomys obesus.