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SUBMITTER: Abu-Gazala S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5961409 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abu-Gazala Samir S Horwitz Elad E Ben-Haroush Schyr Rachel R Bardugo Aya A Israeli Hadar H Hija Ayat A Schug Jonathan J Shin Soona S Dor Yuval Y Kaestner Klaus H KH Ben-Zvi Danny D
Diabetes 20180223 6
Bariatric surgery dramatically improves glycemic control, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain controversial because of confounding weight loss. We performed sleeve gastrectomy (SG) on obese and diabetic leptin receptor-deficient mice (<i>db</i>/<i>db</i>). One week postsurgery, mice weighed 5% less and displayed improved glycemia compared with sham-operated controls, and islets from SG mice displayed reduced expression of diabetes markers. One month postsurgery SG mice weighed more th ...[more]