[Finally, due to a partial prevention of beta-cell death against onset of diabetes and/or the insulin-like effects of IGF-I overexpression, MT-IGF mice (which overexpress the IGF-I gene under the metallothionein I promoter) were significantly resistant to streptozotocin-induced diabetes, with diminished hyperglycemia and prevention of weight loss and death.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE