Table 3.

Rat strains, sex, preoperative body weight, and pre- and postoperative diets used for gastric bypass models

Author	Strain	Sex	Weight pre OP, g	Obesity	Diabetes	Diet			Follow-up period, weeks
						pre OP, weeks	peri OP, days	post OP, weeks
Aphramian [72]	SD	m	420	diet-induced	no	HFD[6]	NR	NC	1
Berthoud [22, 36, 62]	SD	m	490	diet-induced	no	HFD, NC, IE [16–20]	E [10]	HFD,NC,IE	22 [3, 4]
Cooney [61, 93, 110]	ZD [6,7]	m	630/580 [6, 7]	genetic	yes	NC	liquid [2]	NC	4 [6]
	OLEFT/LETO [5]	m	270/340 [5]	genetic	yes	NC	liquid [2]	NC	7 [5]
Inhoe [89]	Fischer 3444	m	230	lean	no	NC	NC	NC	16
Kaplan [23, 111]	SD, LSD, OM	m	525–600	diet-induced	no	HFD[16]	NR	HFD	lifespan
Le Roux [17, 18,75, 100]	Wistar	m	340–550	diet-induced	no	NC	NC (wet)	NC	3 [14], 11 [12, 13]
Li [112]	GK		230	lean	yes	NC	NC	NC	12
Meguid [19, 21,73,113,114]	SD	m	540	diet-induced	no	HFD [7–12]	liquid [7]	HFD	10
	SD	m	770	diet-induced	no	HFD [16]	liquid [7]	NC	4, 13 [17, 18, 20]
Sterns [76]	SD	m	350	lean	no	NC	liquid [5]	HCD	3
Xu [90, 94, 117,118]	ZDF	m	420/480	genetic	yes	NC [1]	liquid [1, 5]	NC	3 [30]
	SD	m	490	diet-induced	no	HFD [7]	liquid [4]	HFD	2 [28, 29, 31]
Taqui [63]	SD	m	350–400	lean	no	E [1]	–	E [2]	2
Tichansky [34, 108]	SD	m	NR	diet-induced	no	HFD [7]	NR	NR	4 [25]
	SD	m	430	lean	no	NC	liquid [3]	ND	5 [26]
Wang [33]	Wistar	m	180–200	normal	no	NC	HFD	HFD	14
Young [119]	Zucker (fa/fa)	m	225–275	genetic	yes	NR	liquid [4]	NR	2

Wistar = Wistar rat; SD = Sprague-Dawley rat; Fischer 344 = Fischer 344 rat; LSD = Levin Sprague-Dawley rat; OM = Osborne Mendel rat; OLETF = Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty rat;

LETO = Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty rat; ZDF = Zucker Diabetic Fatty rat; GK = Goto Kakizaki rat; m = male; HFD = High fat diet; HCD = high carbohydrate diet; NC = normal chow;

E = Ensure®; NR = not reported.