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SUBMITTER: Xiao X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5336177 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xiao Xiangwei X Chen Congde C Guo Ping P Zhang Ting T Fischbach Shane S Fusco Joseph J Shiota Chiyo C Prasadan Krishna K Dong Henry H Gittes George K GK
The Journal of biological chemistry 20170105 8
The mechanisms underlying the effects of exocrine dysfunction on the development of diabetes remain largely unknown. Here we show that pancreatic depletion of SMAD7 resulted in age-dependent increases in β cell dysfunction with accelerated glucose intolerance, followed by overt diabetes. The accelerated β cell dysfunction and loss of proliferation capacity, two features of β cell aging, appeared to be non-cell-autonomous, secondary to the adjacent exocrine failure as a "bystander effect." Increa ...[more]