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Contact: Jim Dryden
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Washington University School of Medicine
Caption: Insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas cannot make enough cyclic AMP in patients with Wolfram syndrome. As a result, the pancreas produces and secretes less insulin, and the cells eventually die.
Credit: Urano lab
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