don't worry I'll split the winnings with you
Yes. It stands for Non-Obese Diabetic Mice.
Apparently for scientific purposes they are
very similar to us... including YOU Alyssa.
I bet you've never been called that before :) LOL
Sigh. And I was giving an honest effort, too. After the nuns, I mean.
Haha one thing research scientists are not very good at is acronyms.
Aren't they cute!!!! I ordered a pair for your birthday, Alyssa.
PHOTO CAPTION: Origin of NOD mice. The NOD mouse (depicted at left) arose from outbred 'Swiss' mice in the course of a selection experiment in Japan in which brother x sister matings were being used to produce a strain in which all mice developed cataracts. At an early generation of inbreeding, mice without cataracts, but with elevated fasting blood glucose (a clinical sign of prediabetes) were noted. These were selectively bred in the hope of creating a mouse model for spontaneous diabetes development. The end result of this selection was the inbred NON strain depicted on the right, a model of pre-type 2 diabetes. The NOD strain (left) derived from a co-selected control line exhibiting normal fasting blood glucose levels; the first case of spontaneous autoimmune type 1 diabetes occurred unexpectly in this 'normoglycemic control' line at the twentieth generation of sibling mating. When these two related strains are intercrossed to elucidate the chromosomal locations of diabetes susceptibility genes, homozygous expression of the NOD MHC alleles is essential for disease development, in contradistinction to the genetics of human type 1 diabetes, in which heterozygosity for MHC genes is common. When the chromosomal locations of non-MHC genes are identified, the NOD parental strain, as expected, contributes most of the genetic susceptibility. However, some susceptibility also derives from the NON strain genome. This illustrates the complexity of diabetes genetics in an outbred human population, wherein overlapping susceptibilities for type 1 and type 2 diabetes may be inherited in some individuals.
G. A vaccine, something they can continuously profit off of, is more likely. If that ever occurred though, a cure may not be far enough. I have more faith in a cure being found outside the U.S. rather than in it.
I think it could be within the next 10 years
HEY PAUL...
I think it will be D. (within the next 5 years)
-ally <3
Uh, excuse me, Paul? Did you just call me a non-obese diabetic mouse? Ah, and I was so hoping my whiskers weren't showing today...
And hey, I'll take em :) They're cute lol
Yes... and we all know that insulin was not discovered in the U.S.
(2 bonus points for anyone who knows in what country insulin was discovered.
There are quite a number of members from this country on Juvenation..
so try not to let it go to their heads but we do owe them our lives.)
Whiskers? Is that a rare complication of Type 1?
Ah, shoot. Paul, did you have to ask the country?! I know it was first tested on a young boy (9-11 yrs old or something?) who I believe was pretty bad off with his diabetes. I know it came from pigs, and there was some questions about whether or not that hormone would be effective for type 1 diabetes... it was a male who discovered it...
But I don't know the country. Sigh. Would you ask something I know, please? I need points, here, sir!
Could be... lol that probably sounded really funny now that I think about it. I should clear this up haha I was talking about mice whiskers :)
Deutschland I think
Joe? You're banned from this post. You're raining on my points parade, and you're snaggin' em all :(
I told you I would split with you, and I'm not entirely sure that is right
Sweet! I get a corner of Joe's points :)
We still don't have a winner. Let's make it more difficult.
What country? What year? Who discovered it?
What animal did they use for research (not NOD mice).
Here's a NOD mouse with instructions in Japanese:
(Oh no, DDrumminMan is going to fall off the face of the plant Juvenation... he's a long poster, too)
More difficult? This is not what I was going for.
1922, I think... Did they test on pigs lol