New research indicates that an acute exercise session may improve isolated muscle insulin resistance in carriers of a TBC1D4 nonsense mutation, a variant linked to hyperinsulinaemia and elevated type ...

Study: Personalized molecular signatures of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Image credit: Microgen/Shutterstock.com A recent study, published in the journal Cell, utilized cutting-edge ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Insulin-activated glucose transport depends on the efficient sorting of facilitated hexose transporter isoforms to distinct subcellular ...

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Using high-resolution microscopy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have shown how insulin prompts fat cells to take ...

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While carbohydrate loaded diets are often blamed for diabetes, sedentary lifestyle is one of the main contributors. Nitin shares secret to fighting diabetes. India is often called the diabetes capital ...

Muscle GLUT4 concentrations were expressed relative to the corresponding baseline values that were set equal to 1 (Fig. 1). Muscle GLUT4 content at baseline was similar between the groups. In the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The functional trafficking steps used by soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins have been difficult to establish because of ...