Bacterial Regulation of Host Pancreatic Beta Cell Development

Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by the loss of functional pancreatic beta cells. The incidence of diabetes has risen rapidly in recent decades, which has been attributed at least partially to alterations in host-associated microbial communities, or microbiota. It is hypothesized that t...

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Main Author: Hill, Jennifer
Other Authors: Guillemin, Karen
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23140