Pancreas May Be Key to Pregnancy-Linked Diabetes
...reventing cancer in the pancreas and other organs. menin prevents pancreatic cancer by blocking the growth ...ugh insulin. Therefore, the pancreas produces less menin during pregnancy. After pregnancy, menin levels go back to normal, and the islet cells retu...Menin Gene Mutation made Insulin Secreting Cells to Proliferate
... Acute loss of a protein named menin – involved in tumor-suppression or cell-proliferat...sylvania School of Medicine reports. In humans menin gene (Men1) mutation can lead to a genetic disease...thyroids and pancreatic islet cells. Normally, the menin protein has a tumor-suppressing or cell-proliferat...