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Physiologist John DeSimone (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States) says there are at least two ion channel receptors for salt in rodent taste receptor cells.
Upon arrival all animals were allowed ad libitum access to either a commercially available diet with high phytoestrogen levels (Harlan Teklad Rodent Diet 8604, Madison, WI, USA) containing 600 micrograms of phytoestrogens/gram of diet; referred to hereafter as the Phyto-600 diet, or a custom phytoestrogen-free diet; referred to hereafter as the Phyto-free diet, obtained from Ziegler Bros. (Gardner, PA, USA) and water.
In type 1 diabetes, it has been shown that inflammatory cytokines play a central role in the destruction of insulin producing β-cells [ 17 18 19 ] , resulting in the production of oxygen-derived free radicals that induce DNA-damage and apoptosis in both rodent and human β-cells [ 20 21 22 23 24 25 ] . In both type 1 and type 1, as well as, type 2 diabetes, the role of free radicals in diabetic complications is well studied.
The C57Bl/6J strain was chosen for susceptibility to obesity on a high fat diet [ 22 32 33 34 ] . Mice were placed on either a high fat diet (diet #D12492; Research Diets, New Brunswick, NJ) or regular rodent chow diet (diet #5053; Purina Mills, Richmond, IN) for a total of five weeks during which time both body weight and food intake was monitored daily.
One alternative to developing species-specific microarrays may be to utilize commercially available human or rodent microarrays in cross-species hybridisations.