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Impaired enteroendocrine development in intestinal-specific Islet1 mouse mutants causes impaired glucose homeostasis.
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology - 15 Nov 2014
Terry Natalie A, Walp Erik R, Lee Randall A, Kaestner Klaus H, May Catherine Lee
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Enteroendocrine cells secrete over a dozen different hormones responsible for coordinating digestion, absorption, metabolism, and gut motility. Loss of enteroendocrine cells is a known cause of severe congenital diarrhea. Furthermore, enteroendocrine cells regulate glucose metabolism, with the incretin hormones glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) playing critical...
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