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Apoptosis in the pancreas of genetically diabetic rats with a disrupted cholecystokinin (CCK-A) receptor gene.
Pancreas - 1 Mar 1997
Jimi A, Kojiro M, Miyasaka K, Kono A, Funakoshi A
Abstract excerpt
In a previous study, we reported that the pancreatic wet weight in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats, cholecystokinin-A (CCK-A) receptor-defective because of a congenital gene abnormality, was significantly lower than in control rats (Long-Evans Tokushima Otsuka; LETO) from 3 weeks of age. In this study we examined apoptosis of pancreatic acinar cells in OLETF rats at 5 to 6 weeks of age in...
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