Critical role of Egr transcription factors in regulating insulin biosynthesis, blood glucose homeostasis, and islet size

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3040-3053

  Müller, Isabelle ^a   Rössler, Oliver G ^a   Wittig, Christine ^a   Menger, Michael D ^a   Thiel, Gerald ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLUCAGON; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSULIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; INSULINOMA; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; RATS; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84862739891     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1064     Document Type: Article

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