Differential Importance of Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide vs Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Signaling for Beta Cell Survival in Mice
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Conflicts of interest The authors disclose the following: Dr Drucker has served as an advisor or consultant within the past 12 months to Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc, Arisaph Pharmaceuticals Inc, Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Hoffman-LaRoche Inc, Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc, Merck Research Laboratories, Metabolex Inc, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk Inc, Phenomix Inc, and Transition Pharmaceuticals Inc. Neither Dr Drucker nor his family members hold stock directly or indirectly in any of these companies. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts.
Funding A.M. was supported by funding from a Canadian Diabetes Association Doctoral Research Award and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research graduate scholarship. These studies were supported in part by a grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF #1-2006-796) and from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP 82700. D.J.D. was supported in part by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
PII: S0016-5085(09)01569-8
doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2009.09.004
© 2009 AGA Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- The Incretins and β-Cell Health: Contrasting Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 as a Path to Understand Islet Function in Diabetes , 30 October 2009

