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Insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease: molecular epidemiology.
Endocrine development - 1 Jan 2005
Sandhu Manjinder S
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) play a fundamental role in somatic growth and cellular differentiation, metabolism and survival. Indeed, the processes linking nutrition, metabolism and growth are thought to involve a complex interrelation among insulin, growth hormone (GH), IGFs and their binding proteins (IGFBPs). However, accumulating data from both experimental and molecular epidemiological studies indicate...
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