. . . . . . . . . . . . "[The role of IAPP and IA in the pathogenesis of human NIDDM and similar forms of diabetes mellitus in cats and macaques may involve several possible mechanisms, including 1) direct physical/chemical damage to beta-cells, resulting in necrosis and loss of functional islet tissue, 2) biologic activities of IAPP that oppose those of insulin or abnormally suppress insulin secretion, and 3) interference by IA deposits of passage of insulin out of beta-cells and/or entrance of glucose and other secretogogues into the islet.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2014-02-25"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:33:46+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .