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Impaired hypothalamic regulation of endocrine function and delayed counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia in Magel2-null mice.
Endocrinology - 1 Mar 2011
Tennese Alysa A, Wevrick Rachel
Abstract excerpt
Hypothalamic dysfunction may underlie endocrine abnormalities in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a genetic disorder that features GH deficiency, obesity, and infertility. One of the genes typically inactivated in PWS, MAGEL2, is highly expressed in the hypothalamus. Mice deficient for Magel2 are obe...
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