The effect of ileal interposition surgery on enteroendocrine cell numbers in the UC Davis type 2 diabetes mellitus rat.
Carl Frederik HansenEfstathios VassiliadisNiels VrangPer T SangildBethany P CummingsPeter HavelJacob Jelsing
Published in: Regulatory peptides (2014)
IT surgery in the UCD-T2DM rat leads to rapid alterations in gut morphometry and an increase in the number of enteroendocrine cells. This effect may potentially explain why IT surgery delays the onset of type 2 diabetes in the UCD-T2DM rat.