Anti-Diabetic and Beta-Cell Protective Actions of Imatinib Mesylate

Type 1 diabetes is a disease resulting from the progressive immune-mediated destruction of insulin producing β-cells. In order to understand more about diabetes we need to understand the mechanisms governing β-cell death. The leukemia drug Gleevec is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets c-Abl. S...

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Main Author: Hägerkvist, Robert
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinsk cellbiologi 2006
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