Article
Targeted disruption of the Chop gene delays endoplasmic reticulum stress–mediated diabetes
2002-02-15
Abstract excerpt
Overload of pancreatic β cells in conditions such as hyperglycemia, obesity, and long-term treatment with sulfonylureas leads to β cell exhaustion and type 2 diabetes.Because β cell mass declines under these conditions, apparently as a result of apoptosis, we speculated that overload kills β cells as a result of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress.The Akita mouse, which carries a conformation-altering missense mutat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f70a32bc-0db7-55e1-b485-20940571fc89
- DOI
- 10.1172/jci0214550
