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The Development of Beta-cell Mass: Recent Progress and Potential Role of GLP-1
1 Nov 2004
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Over the last decade, remarkable strides in incretin hormone biology have laid the foundation for our more recent appreciation that GLP-1 not only regulates mature beta-cell function but also critically regulates beta-cell differentiation, beta-cell proliferation and beta-cell survival. Dysregulated beta-cell growth and function are central to the pathophysiology of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Thus, GLP-1...
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