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The importance of spontaneous diabetes in animals for examining effects on prenatal development lies in the chance that it may offer a more valid model of the human condition than induced ones. Diabetes occurs in several animal species (Salans and Graham, Diabetes 31(Suppl 1): 1–102, 1982), but pregnancy has been described in few of them.
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Kalter, H. (2012). Diabetic Pregnancy in Animals II. In: A History of Diabetes in Pregnancy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1557-8_20
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