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Compensatory responses in mice carrying a null mutation for Ins1 or Ins2.
Diabetes - 1 Feb 2001
Leroux L, Desbois P, Lamotte L, Duvillié B, Cordonnier N, Jackerott M, Jami J, Bucchini D, Joshi R L
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Intrauterine growth retardation and postnatal acute diabetes result from insulin deficiency in double homozygous null mutants for Ins1 and Ins2 (Duvillié B, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:5137-5140, 1997). The characterization of single homozygous null mutants for Ins1 or Ins2 is described here. Neither kind of mutant mice was diabetic. Immunocytochemical analysis of the islets showed normal distribution...
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