Hepatitis C virus infection and human pancreatic β-cell dysfunction

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 940-941

  Masini, Matilde ^a   Campani, Daniela ^a   Boggi, Ugo ^a   Menicagli, Michele ^a   Funel, Nicola ^a   Pollera, Maria ^a   Lupi, Roberto ^a   Del Guerra, Silvia ^a   Bugliani, Marco ^a   Torri, Scilla ^a   Del Prato, Stefano ^a   Mosca, Franco ^a   Filipponi, Franco ^a   Marchetti, Piero ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CISANELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN RELEASE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET DISEASE; STAINING;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20144388828     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.4.940     Document Type: Article

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