4 Result(s)

Article

Mice conditionally lacking the Wolfram gene in pancreatic islet beta cells exhibit diabetes as a result of enhanced endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis

Wolfram syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by childhood diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and severe neurodegeneration, resulting in premature death. The aim of this study was to investig...

A. C. Riggs, E. Bernal-Mizrachi, M. Ohsugi, J. Wasson, S. Fatrai… in Diabetologia (2005)

Article

Variability of the pancreatic islet beta cell/liver (GLUT 2) glucose transporter gene in NIDDM patients

The purpose of these experiments was to test the hypothesis that impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in NIDDM is due to mutations in the islet beta cell/liver glucose transporter (GLUT 2) gene. Using...

Y. Tanizawa, A. C. Riggs, K. C. Chiu, R. C. Janssen, D. S. H. Bell… in Diabetologia (1994)

Article

Glucokinase gene in gestational diabetes mellitus: population association study and molecular scanning

Mutations of the glucokinase gene result in early-onset familial Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, and several members of the mutant glucokinase kindreds were originally diagnosed as having ges...

K. C. Chiu, R. C. P. Go, M. Aoki, A. C. Riggs, Y. Tanizawa, R. T. Acton… in Diabetologia (1994)

Article

Last interglacial in Devils Hole

K. R. Ludwig, K. R. Simmons, I. J. Winograd, B. J. Szabo, J. M. Landwehr… in Nature (1993)