Volume 2008 [27 articles]

Importance of Aggregated Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) for the Progressive Beta-Cell Failure in Type 2 Diabetes and in Transplanted Human Islets [6 articles]

• Recent Insights in Islet Amyloid Polypeptide-Induced Membrane Disruption and Its Role in β-Cell Death in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Lucie Khemtémourian, J. Antoinette Killian, Jo W. M. Höppener, and Maarten F. M. Engel
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 421287, 9 pages
• Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Transgenic Mice: In Vivo and Ex Vivo Models for the Role of hIAPP in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, J. W. M. Höppener, H. M. Jacobs, N. Wierup, G. Sotthewes, M. Sprong, P. de Vos, R. Berger, F. Sundler, and B. Ahrén
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 697035, 8 pages
• Real-Time Monitoring of Apoptosis by Caspase-3-Like Protease Induced FRET Reduction Triggered by Amyloid Aggregation, Johan F. Paulsson, Sebastian W. Schultz, Martin Köhler, Ingo Leibiger, Per-Olof Berggren, and Gunilla T. Westermark
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 865850, 12 pages
• The Role of the 14–20 Domain of the Islet Amyloid Polypeptide in Amyloid Formation, Sharon Gilead and Ehud Gazit
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 256954, 8 pages
• Disturbed α-Cell Function in Mice with β-Cell Specific Overexpression of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide, Bo Ahrén and Maria Sörhede Winzell
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 304513, 4 pages
• Transthyretin and Amyloid in the Islets of Langerhans in Type-2 Diabetes, Gunilla T. Westermark and Per Westermark
  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 429274, 7 pages