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Regulation of wingless-type MMTV integration site family (WNT) signalling in pancreatic islets from wild-type and obese mice.
Diabetologia - 1 Jan 2010
Krützfeldt J, Stoffel M
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: TCF7L2 is a type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene and downstream effector of canonical wingless-type MMTV integration site family (WNT) signalling. However, it is unknown whether this pathway is active in adult pancreatic islets in vivo, and whether it is regulated in obesity. METHODS: We analysed activation of endogenous WNT signalling in the endocrine pancreas from wild-type and obese mice...
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