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Genetic variation in the hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha gene is associated with type 2 diabetes in Japanese.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Oct 2005
Yamada Norihiro, Horikawa Yukio, Oda Naohisa, Iizuka Katsumi, Shihara Nobuyuki, Kishi Shoji, Takeda Jun
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CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Vascular endothelial growth factor plays a critical role both in neovascularization of proliferative diabetic retinopathy and in angiogenesis of islets in the pancreatic developmental stage in determining beta-cell mass and properties. Vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA levels increase as a result of increased transcriptional activation, mediated predominantly by hypoxia-inducible...
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