Organ alchemy: Producing insulin in the liver

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 504-505

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

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; BETACELLULIN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE THERAPY; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIVER; MICE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037902483     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0503-504     Document Type: Short Survey

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