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...
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258434 |
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