Lessons from Animal Diabetes - E. Shafrir / A.E. Renold

Interest in animal diabetes has been long-standing and intensive -perhaps because, of the several endocrine-metaboloic diseases shared by humans and animals, diabetes is the most widespread. Apart from numerous species of small rodents -mice, hamsters, rats and gerbils -diabetes is known to occur in dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, pigs, porcupines, carps, eels, ducks and parrots, and has been documented in even more exotic cases such as a hippopotamus in the Toyo Zoo and a dolphin in the San Diego Aquarium. To illustrate further the prominence of our animal allies in the fight for understanding and treatment of diabetes, we should remember that the decisive linkage of diabetes to the pancreas was first demonstrated in the dog by Minkowski in 1889 in Strasbourg, and the efficacy of the newley-isolated insulin was established in depancreatized dogs by Banting and Best in 1921, in Toronto.

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