Early Human Development
Volume 86, Issue 5 , Pages 287-294 , May 2010

Congenital hyperinsulinism

  • Jean-Baptiste Arnoux

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Pascale de Lonlay

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Center of Reference for Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris Descartes, 75015 Paris, France. Tel.: +33 1 44 49 48 52; fax: +33 1 44 49 48 50.
    • ,
  • Maria-Joao Ribeiro

      Affiliations

    • Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Département de Recherche Médicale, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Khalid Hussain

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street, Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, Developmental Endocrinology Research Group, London, UK
    • ,
  • Oliver Blankenstein

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Klaus Mohnike

      Affiliations

    • Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Vassili Valayannopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Jacques Robert

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Jacques Rahier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Christine Sempoux

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Christine Bellanné

      Affiliations

    • Département de Génétique, AP-HP Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Virginie Verkarre

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Yves Aigrain

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Francis Jaubert

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Francis Brunelle

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Claire Nihoul-Fékété

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

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doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.05.003

Early Human Development
Volume 86, Issue 5 , Pages 287-294 , May 2010

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