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- noun medicine A
tumour of thepancreas that secretesinsulin
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Examples
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And people with insulinoma, “who secrete insulin continuously,” gain weight with insulin injections, but do not become obese 260.
Gary Taubes responds to George Bray | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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The fact that insulin brought about weight-gain in anorexics and insulinoma tells us that insulin appears to be responsible for weight-gain in large numbers of people.
Gary Taubes responds to George Bray | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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In fact, how much might the process tell about the generation and possible avoidance of insulinoma tumors, yet another important area of study?
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews Science News 2010
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We found high apparent beta-cell death only in a very large wildtype-βTag insulinoma, but similarly sized insulinomas were never seen in
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sounak Gupta et al. 2009
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Beta-Cell Death Does Not Explain the Reduced Beta-Cell Mass in To determine if differential cell death may be the cause for the relatively small size of the insulinoma in
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sounak Gupta et al. 2009
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Management of refractory hypoglycemia due to malignant insulinoma is challenging.
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Inhibit thrombocyte function, inhibits apoptosis in tumour (insulinoma) cells and protein degradation (7) 6.
The Diabetes Blog 2009
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Because PKO-βTag tumors are generally much smaller, their lack of vascularity could be simply due to a failure to progress to late stage insulinoma.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sounak Gupta et al. 2009
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Unless a person has an insulinoma (a tumor of the bet cells) or hyperfunction of the beta cells for whatever reason (s), there is no over-production of insulin.
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Perk KO-βTag (PKO-βTag, open triangles and dashed line) littermates during postnatal progression of insulinoma development.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sounak Gupta et al. 2009
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