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Poor maternal nutrition leads to alterations in oxidative stress, antioxidant defense capacity, and markers of fibrosis in rat islets: potential underlying mechanisms for development of the diabetic phenotype in later life.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Aug 2010
Tarry-Adkins Jane L, Chen Jian-Hua, Jones Richard H, Smith Noel H, Ozanne Susan E
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Low birth weight is associated with glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in later life. Good evidence indicates that the environment plays an important role in this relationship. However, the mechanisms underlying these relationships are defined poorly. Islets are pa...
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