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Editorial
. 2023 Dec 1;72(12):1748-1750.
doi: 10.2337/dbi23-0023.

An Intraislet Paracrine Signaling Pathway That Enables Glucagon to Stimulate Pancreatic β-Cells

Alejandro Caicedo  1 , Mark O Huising  2   3 , Jürgen Wess  4
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Editorial

An Intraislet Paracrine Signaling Pathway That Enables Glucagon to Stimulate Pancreatic β-Cells

Alejandro Caicedo et al. Diabetes. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Duality of Interest. During the past 3 years, M.O.H. received funding from Crinetics to study somatostatin analogues and consulted for AstraZeneca. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.

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