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Amylin Uncovered: A Review on the Polypeptide Responsible for Type II Diabetes

Amylin is primarily responsible for classifying type II diabetes as an amyloid (protein misfolding) disease as it has great potential to aggregate into toxic nanoparticles, thereby resulting in loss of pancreatic β-cells. Although type II diabetes is on the increase each year, possibly due to bad ea...

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Autores principales: Pillay, Karen, Govender, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23607096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/826706