Superoxide-mediated activation of uncoupling protein 2 causes pancreatic beta cell dysfunction.

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Published in J Clin Invest on December 01, 2003

Authors

Stefan Krauss1, Chen-Yu Zhang, Luca Scorrano, Louise T Dalgaard, Julie St-Pierre, Shane T Grey, Bradford B Lowell

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1: Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.

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