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Partial loss of pancreas endocrine and exocrine cells of human ARX-null mutation: consideration of pancreas differentiation.
Differentiation; research in biological diversity - 1 Jan 2000
Itoh Masayuki, Takizawa Yuji, Hanai Sae, Okazaki Shin, Miyata Rie, Inoue Takeshi, Akashi Takumi, Hayashi Masaharu, Goto Yu-ichi
Abstract excerpt
Aristaless-related homeobox gene (ARX) mutation leads to several neurological disorders including X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia (XLAG), West syndrome and Partington syndrome, with XLAG being the most severe form. Although some of the brain pathologies of XLAG have already been described, the crucial extra-brain symptoms are severe growth retardation, transient hyperglycemia and intractable...
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