Publication Date:
1989-07-07
Description:
A prominent feature of diabetes mellitus is the inability of insulin to appropriately increase the transport of glucose into target tissues. The contributions of different glucose transport proteins to insulin resistance in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes was evaluated. A glucose transporter messenger RNA and its cognate protein that are exclusively expressed in muscle and adipose tissue were specifically depleted in diabetic animals, and these effects were reversed after insulin therapy; a different glucose transporter and its messenger RNA that exhibit a less restricted tissue distribution were not specifically modulated in this way. Depletion of the muscle- and adipose-specific glucose transporter species correlates with and may account for the major portion of cellular insulin resistance in diabetes in these animals.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Garvey, W T -- Huecksteadt, T P -- Birnbaum, M J -- DK 38765/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK 39519/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jul 7;245(4913):60-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism, VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2662408" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
3-O-Methylglucose
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Adipose Tissue/metabolism
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Animals
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Blood Glucose/metabolism
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Brain/metabolism
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Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/drug therapy/*metabolism
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Insulin/*therapeutic use
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Male
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Methylglucosides/metabolism
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Monosaccharide Transport Proteins/*biosynthesis/genetics
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Muscles/metabolism
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Organ Specificity
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RNA, Messenger/genetics
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Rats
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Rats, Inbred Strains
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Reference Values
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*Suppression, Genetic
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Transcription, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
