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Pig Breed Serves as Ideal Model for Human Obesity Research

2014-05-23 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have conducted a series of studies showing that the pig is instrumental as a model for human obesity-related research. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist Gloria Solano-Aguilar has found that using swine as a biomedical research model was useful for studying metabolic effects induced by a high-fat diet.

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