Global expression profiling of glucose-regulated genes in pancreatic islets od spontaneously diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rats

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 135-150

  Ghanaat Pour, Hamedeh ^a   Huang, Zhen ^a   Lehtihet, Mikael ^a   Sjöholm, Åke ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASE; ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER C8; ALPHA INTERNEXIN; CASEIN KINASE I; CYCLIN D1; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; INCRETIN; INSULIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAB PROTEIN; RAB3D PROTEIN; SHAW POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR 3; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GOTO KAKIZAKI RAT; INSULIN RELEASE; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOGENESIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPONTANEOUSLY DIABETIC RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34548312143     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JME-07-0002     Document Type: Article

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