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The Minkowski Award Lecture at the 21st Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Rome, September 1986
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Pipeleers, D. The biosociology of pancreatic B cells. Diabetologia 30, 277–291 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00299019
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