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Physiologic and endocrinologic characterization of male sex-biased diabetes in C57BLKS/J mice congenic for the fat mutation at the carboxypeptidease E locus.
Endocrine - 1 Feb 1999
Leiter E H, Kintner J, Flurkey K, Beamer W G, Naggert J K
Abstract excerpt
The fat gene in mice represents a recessive mutation at the carboxypeptidase E (Cpe) locus. The mutant allele (Cpe(fat)) encodes a highly unstable enzyme and produces an obesity phenotype characterized by attenuated processing of prohormones such as proinsulin that require this exopeptidase for full maturation. This article presents a preliminary physiologic and endocrinologic characterization of the stock of...
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