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Diabetes: TXNIP involved in increased secretion of glucagon from pancreatic alpha cells
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Diabetes: TXNIP involved in increased secretion of glucagon from pancreatic alpha cells

by Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In diabetes research over the past two decades, Anath Shalev, M.D., has shown that the protein TXNIP regulates survival and function of beta cells, the pancreatic cells that produce the hormone insulin to lower levels of glucose in the blood. Downregulation or inhibition...