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Kumamoto University

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Researchers elucidate how BHLHE40, a transcriptional repressor activated in pancreatic β-cells as a response to hypoxia, inhibits the expression of the MAFA protein, thereby leading to impaired insulin secretion.

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Professor Kazuya Yamagata

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