EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF DIABETES

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas to secret the adequate amount of insulin, to transport glucose from blood into different cells of the body. If the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the produced ins ulin does not work properly, the glucose cannot enter the body cells. So glucose stays in the blood cells, which makes the blood sugar level, become high causing diabetes. It is initially characterized by a loss of glucose homeostasis. Experimental models are conventions. The community of scientists designates, often informally, its subjects of study. Today scientists not only breed their experimental animals; they also exercise the power to add to, delete, exchange, or mutate the animal genes. Like all inv entions, they may be judged by the way they serve our need.