Molecular scanning of the gene for thioredoxin, an antioxidative and antiapoptotic protein, and genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1150, Issue , 2008, Pages 103-105

  Ikegami, Hiroshi ^a   Ono, Masaya ^b   Fujisawa, Tomomi ^b   Hiromine, Yoshihisa ^a   Kawabata, Yumiko ^a   Yamato, Eiji ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene; Oxidative stress; Susceptibility; Thioredoxin; Type 1 diabetes; Type 2 diabetes; cell

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; DNA; THIOREDOXIN;

ALLELE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROTECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JAPAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TXN GENE;

EID: 57749194861     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1447.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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