Serotonin regulates pancreatic beta cell mass during pregnancy
2010
During pregnancy, women often become insulin resistant, thus requiring an expansion of pancreatic beta cell mass to provide more insulin. Michael German and his colleagues now report that lactogenic hormones drive the expression of serotonin in the beta cells to induce this increase in beta cell mass.
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