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A Bovine Albumin Peptide as a Possible Trigger of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

A Bovine Albumin Peptide as a Possible Trigger of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

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A Bovine Albumin Peptide as a Possible Trigger of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

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Full title

A Bovine Albumin Peptide as a Possible Trigger of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Publisher

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Journal title

The New England journal of medicine, 1992-07, Vol.327 (5), p.302-307

Language

English

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Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

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Contents

THE destruction of the pancreatic beta cells that occurs in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is autoimmune in nature, but the cause of the autoimmune process is not known. Several recessive genes map the risk of diabetes,
1
but the concordance in identical twins is less than 50 percent,
2
suggesting that one or more env...

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A Bovine Albumin Peptide as a Possible Trigger of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_16683554

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_16683554

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ISSN

0028-4793

E-ISSN

1533-4406

DOI

10.1056/NEJM199207303270502

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