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Genetic variability of procolipase associates with altered insulin secretion in non-diabetic Caucasians.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Feb 2009
Weyrich P, Albet S, Lammers R, Machicao F, Fritsche A, Stefan N, Häring H-U
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Procolipase (CLPS) is secreted from the exocrine pancreas into the gastrointestinal tract and becomes proteolytically cleaved into colipase and the pentapeptide enterostatin. While colipase is an indispensable cofactor for pancreatic lipase, enterostatin acts as a hormone that inhibits insulin secretion and confers satiety signals to the brain, thereby restricting further food intake in animal models. As...
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