Fertility and pregnancy-associated ß-cell proliferation in mice deficient in proglucagon-derived peptides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sugiyama, Chisato ^a,b   Yamamoto, Michiyo ^a   Kotani, Tomomi ^b   Kikkawa, Fumitaka ^b   Murata, Yoshiharu ^a   Hayashi, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INSULIN; PROGLUCAGON DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCAGON GENE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE ACTION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGENY; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREGNANCY; PROGLUCAGON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865292512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043745     Document Type: Article

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