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Protein kinase Cdelta activation by interleukin-1beta stabilizes inducible nitric-oxide synthase mRNA in pancreatic beta-cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 16 Feb 2001
Carpenter L, Cordery D, Biden T J
Abstract excerpt
Exposure of pancreatic islets to cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-1beta induces a variety of proinflammatory genes including type II nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS) which produces nitric oxide (NO). NO is thought to be a major cause of islet beta-cell dysfunction and apoptotic beta-cell death, which results in type I diabetes. Since protein kinase C (PKC) mediates some of the actions of cytokines in other cell...
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