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This paper is based on the text of the 18th Minkowski Lecture of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, delivered at its meeting in Oslo, September 1983
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Howell, S.L. The mechanism of insulin secretion. Diabetologia 26, 319–327 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266030
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