ea0016p253 | Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | ECE2008
Path Gunter
, Perakakis Nikolaos
, Ehler Susanne
, van Loosen Sandra
, Alt Marcus
, Stahl Timm
, Seufert Jochen
Within the exocrine pancreas, p8 expression is induced by pancreatitis and protects exocrine tissue from inflammatory damage via inhibition of NFκB. In previous work, we investigated the role of p8 within the endocrine pancreas and characterised p8 as a glucose-dependent mediator of beta cell proliferation. Here we investigate the hypothesis that p8 protects beta cells from cell damage by the diabetogenic drug STZ. We investigated native and transiently transfected INS-1E...