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Diabetes and tumor formation in transgenic mice expressing Reg I.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 19 Nov 2000
Yamaoka T, Yoshino K, Yamada T, Idehara C, Hoque M O, Moritani M, Yoshimoto K, Hata J, Itakura M
Abstract excerpt
To examine the effect of overexpressed regenerating gene (Reg) I on pancreatic beta-cells, we generated transgenic mice expressing Reg I in islets (Reg-Tg mice). Three lines of Reg-Tg mice were established. In line-1 Reg-Tg mice, the expression level of Reg I mRNA in islets was 7 times higher than those in lines 2 and 3 of Reg-Tg mice, and line 1 mice developed diabetes by apoptosis of beta-cells, as well as...
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