Insulin expression in the thymus, tolerance, and type 1 diabetes

Diabetes/Metabolism Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-327

  Pugliese, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ALLELE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; THYMUS;

EID: 0032461183     PISSN: 07424221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0895(199812)14:4<325::AID-DMR242>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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