Sex differences underlying pancreatic islet biology and its dysfunction

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Maureen Gannon1, Rohit N Kulkarni2, Hubert M Tse3

  • 1Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Health Authority, Nashville, TN, USA.

Molecular Metabolism
|June 13, 2018
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
DiabetesGender differencesImmune cellsIsletSex differencesα-cellβ-cell

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