Activation of the Nlrp3 inflammasome in infiltrating macrophages by endocannabinoids mediates beta cell loss in type 2 diabetes.

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Published in Nat Med on August 18, 2013

Authors

Tony Jourdan1, Grzegorz Godlewski, Resat Cinar, Adeline Bertola, Gergő Szanda, Jie Liu, Joseph Tam, Tiffany Han, Bani Mukhopadhyay, Monica C Skarulis, Cynthia Ju, Myriam Aouadi, Michael P Czech, George Kunos

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1: Laboratory of Physiologic Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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