Aqua blue, dark blue, and white graphic with the title: “World Diabetes Day Reading List.” The SAO logo is in the top left corner and there are two plus signs on the left. On the right are screenshots from the titles of these 5 articles: “Leptin- and Leptin Receptor-Deficient Rodent Models: Relevance for Human Type 2 Diabetes,” “Knockout mouse models of insulin signaling: Relevance past and future,” “Of rodents and men: Species-specific glucose regulation and type 2 diabetes research,” “You are what you eat, or are you? The challenges of translating high-fat-fed rodents to human obesity and diabetes,” and “Animal Research for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Its Limited Translation for Clinical Benefit, and the Way Forward.”
For more on the shortcomings of #animalmodels of #T2D & what should replace them, check out this series of @pcrm.org reviews by Chandrasekera, Pippin, @drnealbarnard.pcrm.org, Lai, Wang, Ali, & Bunner in Curr Diabetes Rev, WJD, ALTEX, Nutr Diabetes, & ATLA.