MT and Endocrine Pancreas

MT was monitored in the pancreas of normal mice (Onosaka et al. 1988), while in rats different isoforms were isolated from pancreatic beta cells at MT levels between 5 and 20 ppb Zn Isoforms 1 and 5 of the six molecular varieties established in rabbit liver (Ribas and Iniesta 

In anemia, levels of MT, cysteine and transferrin are higher than under normal physiological circumstances (Iniesta et al. 1985, Gonzalez-Baron et al. 1997), and MT is considered for Fe as also for Zn and Cu, an ironbinding protein (Ribas et al. 1988) and homeostatic regulatory protein (Ribas et al. 1987). It is possible that MTX might condense with native MT and induce the partial 

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