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Long-term effects of early-life gut microbiota perturbations on pancreatic islet development
DownloadFall 2021
Impaired secretion of insulin from pancreatic beta-cells, along with loss of cell mass, is one of the hallmarks of the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. In humans, beta-cells’ ability to secrete insulin in response to glucose is acquired...
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Long-term Impacts of Early Life Antibiotic Exposure on Intestinal Microbiota and Metabolic Disease
DownloadFall 2015
Although genetic factors, diet choices and sedentary lifestyle have long been considered main risk contributors for obesity and diabetes mellitus, years of study show that these factors cannot fully explain the increasing rate of worldwide metabolic disease. Epidemiological studies in recent...