Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox gene 1 induces expression of insulin genes in liver and ameliorates streptozotocin-induced hyperglycemia

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 568-572

  Ferber, Sarah ^a   Halkin, Amir ^b   Cohen, Hofit ^a   Ber, Idit ^a,c   Einav, Yulia ^c   Goldberg, Iris ^a   Barshack, Iris ^a   Seijffers, Rhona ^a,c   Kopolovic, Juri ^a,c   Kaiser, Nurit ^d   Karasik, Avraham ^a,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURIN; INSULIN; STREPTOZOCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; HOMEOBOX; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; DUODENUM; GENE THERAPY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; STREPTOZOCIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034068602     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75050     Document Type: Article

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