Publication Date:
1982-04-16
Description:
Compared to matched controls, 17 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy showed decreased insulin binding to monocytes due to decreased receptor concentration. These patients showed no signs of altered glucose metabolism and retrospective analysis of the clinical records of a further 56 such patients revealed no modification in carbohydrate metabolism. These data suggest that reduced insulin receptor number does not produce overt modifications of glucose metabolism in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉DePirro, R -- Lauro, R -- Testa, I -- Ferretti, I -- De Martinis, C -- Dellatonio, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Apr 16;216(4543):311-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7063889" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Cell Membrane/metabolism
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Child
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Glucose/*metabolism
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Humans
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Monocytes/metabolism
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Muscular Dystrophies/*metabolism
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Receptor, Insulin/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics