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Bernhard Fuss1, Thomas Becker, Ingo Zinke

  • 1LIMES-Institute, Program Unit Development and Genetics, Laboratory for Molecular Developmental Biology, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 169, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.

Nature
|December 15, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,フルーツハエのインスリンシグナル伝達と成長調節に不可欠な新しい遺伝子,steppke (ステップ) を発見しました. この遺伝子は,重要な成長経路の上流に作用し,糖尿病や肥満のような代謝障害の洞察を提供します.

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