Sweet news for hypoglycemic babies

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1301-1302

  Ashcroft, Frances M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM); POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RECEPTORS, DRUG;

EID: 0029825712     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1296-1301     Document Type: Short Survey

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