Childhood Obesity and Islet Function

Childhood Obesity and Islet Function

The prevalence of childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) has increased during recent decades. T2DM is accompanied with functional changes in the islets of Langerhans, which can be identified early in the pathogenesis. The aim of this thesis was to explore how metabolic changes caused...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staaf, Johan
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinsk cellbiologi 2017
Subjects:
type 2 diabetes mellitus
Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Childhood Obesity
palmitate
glucose-stimulated insulin secretion
hyperinsulinemia
hyperglucagonemia
GLP-1
glicentin
magnetic resonance imaging
metabolic syndrome
oral glucose tolerance test
centroid
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-313310
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-9801-6

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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-9801-6

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