Normal glucagon signaling and β-cell function after near-total α-cell ablation in adult mice

Diabetes

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2872-2882

  Thorel, Fabrizio ^a   Damond, Nicolas ^a   Chera, Simona ^a   Wiederkehr, Andreas ^a   Thorens, Bernard ^b   Meda, Paolo ^a   Wollheim, Claes B ^a   Herrera, Pedro L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; GLUCAGON; GLUCAGON-SECRETING CELLS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PANCREAS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCAGON; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOZOCIN; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 80755168891     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db11-0876     Document Type: Article

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