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In the first International Colloquium on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn the topic “the fetal endocrine pancreas” was covered by a review of the functional development of the fetal islet focussing on man and the most commonly studied animal species (Milner et al. , 1975). Since that time there has been a steady accretion of new facts but little has been dicovered which might serve as a stimulus for radical rethinking in this subject. Therefore, in accepting the remit “the fetal endocrine pancreas” for a second time, a specific theme has been chosen which is developed in an essay that is partly a review of recent work and partly unashamedly speculative.
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Milner, R.D.G., de Gasparo, M., Milner, G.R., Wirdnam, P.K. (1979). Amino Acids and Development of the Beta Cell. In: Sutherland, H.W., Stowers, J.M. (eds) Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn 1978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66972-9_9
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