Experimental Diabetes Research
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 105076, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/105076
Review Article
Early-Life Origins of Type 2 Diabetes: Fetal Programming of the Beta-Cell Mass
Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, Laboratoire B2PE (Biologie et Pathologie du Pancréas Endocrine), Unité BFA (Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptive), EAC 4413 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75205 Paris, France
Received 30 May 2011; Revised 2 August 2011; Accepted 2 August 2011
Academic Editor: Christine Maric-Bilkan
Copyright © 2011 Bernard Portha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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