Sex differences in islet stress responses support female β cell resilience

• Main Authors: George P. Brownrigg (Author), Yi Han Xia (Author), Chieh Min Jamie Chu (Author), Su Wang (Author), Charlotte Chao (Author), Jiashuo Aaron Zhang (Author), Søs Skovsø (Author), Evgeniy Panzhinskiy (Author), Xiaoke Hu (Author), James D. Johnson (Author), Elizabeth J. Rideout (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Pancreatic β cells play a key role in maintaining glucose homeostasis; dysfunction of this critical cell type causes type 2 diabetes (T2D). Emerging evidence points to sex differences in β cells, but few studies have examined male-female differences in β cell stress responses and resilien...