Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus - A genetically programmed failure of the beta cell to compensate for insulin resistance

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 777-783

  Polonsky, Kenneth S ^a,b   Sturis, Jeppe ^a   Bell, Graeme I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ETIOLOGY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INHERITANCE; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS;

EID: 0030596338     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199603213341207     Document Type: Review

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