Diabetes
Researchers from the United States and Germany detail new studies and findings in the area of diabetes
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 15th, 2006
Study 1: Conditional expression of Smad7 in pancreatic beta cells disrupts TGF-beta signaling and induces reversible diabetes mellitus.
According to recent research published in the journal Plos Biology, "Identification of signaling pathways that maintain and promote adult pancreatic islet functions will accelerate our understanding of organogenesis and improve strategies for treating diseases like diabetes mellitus. Previous work has implicated transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling as an important regulator of pancreatic islet development, but...
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