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Lipid-induced pancreatic β-cell dysfunction: focus on in vivo studies.
American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Feb 2011
Giacca Adria, Xiao Changting, Oprescu Andrei I, Carpentier Andre C, Lewis Gary F
Abstract excerpt
The phenomenon of lipid-induced pancreatic β-cell dysfunction ("lipotoxicity") has been very well documented in numerous in vitro experimental systems and has become widely accepted. In vivo demonstration of β-cell lipotoxicity, on the other hand, has not been consistently demonstrated, and there remains a lack of consensus regarding the in vivo effects of chronically elevated free fatty acids (FFA) on β-cell...
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