To provide a model non-human animal contracting type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism, a method for producing the same, and a method for screening a preventing and treating agent of the type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism and a method for diagnosing the type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism by using the model animal.
This model non-human animal having defective stress-associated endoplasmic reticulum protein SERP1 gene function on its chromosome and contracting the type 2 diabetes mellitus caused by insulin secretion abnormality and/or endoplasmic reticulum function abnormality, and/or pituitary dwarfism caused by the abnormal biosynthesis of growth hormone in the pituitary is produced. By using the model non-human animal contracting type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism, the screening of the preventing and treating agent of the type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism is performed. Further, by using the model non-human animal, the diagnosis of the type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or pituitary dwarfism is performed.
MIYAZAKI MAHIRO
OGAWA SATOSHI
TOYAMA MASAYA
DAINIPPON PHARMACEUTICAL CO
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