Islet cell antibodies in Sulawesi macaqu
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Charles F. Howard Jr.; Ta-Yun Fang; Charles Southwick; Joseph Erwin; Jito Sugard
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Older monkeys of the Sulawesian species Macaca nigra spontaneously develop a lesion in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans in which there is deposition of amyloid and gradual degeneration of all cells, which can lead eventually to development of diabetes mellitus. Islet cell antibodies (ICA), formed