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The Estrogenic Effect of Bisphenol A Disrupts Pancreatic β-Cell Function In Vivo and Induces Insulin Resistance

The function of the pancreatic β-cell is the storage and release of insulin, the main hormone involved in blood glucose homeostasis. The results in this article show that the widespread environmental contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA) imitates 17β-estradiol (E(2)) effects in vivo on blood glucose homeost...

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Autores principales: Alonso-Magdalena, Paloma, Morimoto, Sumiko, Ripoll, Cristina, Fuentes, Esther, Nadal, Angel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8451