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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Brief communication Open Access A model to estimate insulin sensitivity in dairy cows 1 2 Paul Holtenius and Kjell Holtenius* Address: 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), SE-75007, Uppsala, Sweden and 2Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Kungsängen Research Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), SE-753 23 Uppsala, Sweden Email: Paul Holtenius - paul.holtenius@kv.slu.se; Kjell Holtenius* - kjell.holtenius@huv.slu.se * Corresponding author Published: 11 October 2007 Received: 17 April 2007 Accepted: 11 October 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49:29 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-49-29 This article is available from: /content/49/1/29 © 2007 Holtenius and Holtenius; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Impairment of the insulin regulation of energy metabolism is considered to be an etiologic key component for metabolic disturbances. Methods for studies of insulin sensitivity thus are highly topical. There are clear indications that reduced insulin sensitivity contributes to the metabolic disturbances that occurs especially among obese lactating cows. Direct measurements of insulin