The estrogenic effect of bisphenol A disrupts pancreatic beta-cell function in vivo and induces insulin resistance.
The function of the pancreatic beta-cell is the storage and release of insulin, the main hormone involved in blood glucose homeostasis. The results in this article show that the widespread environmental contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA) imitates 17beta-estradiol (E2) effects in vivo on blood glucose hom...
| Published in: | Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 106 - 113 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Jan2006
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