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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

Bernard Portha, Audrey Chavey, and Jamileh Movassat

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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