Chronic marijuana usage by human pancreas donors is associated with impaired islet function.

We investigated the effect of chronic marijuana use, defined as 4 times weekly for more than 3 years, on human pancreatic islets. Pancreata from deceased donors who chronically used marijuana were compared to those from age, sex and ethnicity matched non-users. The islets from marijuana-users displa...

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Main Authors: Meirigeng Qi, John S Kaddis, Kuan-Tsen Chen, Jeffrey Rawson, Keiko Omori, Zhen Bouman Chen, Sangeeta Dhawan, Jeffrey S Isenberg, Fouad Kandeel, Bart O Roep, Ismail H Al-Abdullah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258434