Comparison of Goto-Kakizaki rats and high fat diet-induced obese rats: Are they reliable models to study Type 2 Diabetes mellitus?

• Wilson Mitsuo Tatagiba Kuwabara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wilsonk@icb.usp.br

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-6218

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• Ana Carolina Panveloski-Costa,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Caroline Naomi Fukusawa Yokota,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Joice Naiara Bertaglia Pereira,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Jorge Mancini Filho,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Rosangela Pavan Torres,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Sandro Massao Hirabara,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Rui Curi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Tatiana Carolina Alba-Loureiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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