News tagged with insulin receptor
Experimental insulin-like growth factor receptor inhibitor reduced pancreatic cancer growth
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at Amgen are testing a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits the activity of insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1 and IGF-2) and appears to reduce pancreatic cancer cells in early testing, according to a ...
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Neuroscientists show insulin receptor signaling regulates structure of brain circuits
Jun 19, 2008 |
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[B]Impact of the signaling upon synapses and dendrites is shown for the first time in living creatures[/B] A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated for the first time in living ani ...
Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists ...
Fat-derived inflammatory factor may explain diseases that come with obesity
Apr 07, 2009 |
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An inflammatory factor already linked to several diseases, including pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and arthritis, may also be responsible for the insulin resistance that comes with obesity, according to a new study published ...
Novel mechanisms controlling insulin release and fat deposition discovered
May 13, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in two recent studies shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of body fat deposition as well as the release of insulin ...
Bypassing the insulin highway
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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An immune cell known as a neutrophil releases a protein that can suppress glucose production in the liver –without targeting insulin, researchers have found.
Researchers create first model for retina receptors
Sep 30, 2008 |
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A team of scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has created the first genetic research model for a microscopic part of the eye that when missing causes blindness. The research appears in a recent ...
Systems properties of insulin signaling revealed
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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A team of Swedish researchers has characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling, described in an article published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Co ...
Can berberine enhance glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in rat islets?
Nov 03, 2008 |
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The therapeutical actions of berberine on diabetes have been well studied. Previous researches show that berberine modulates cholesterol through increasing low-density lipoprotein receptor mRNA stability, reduces body adiposity ...
Study pinpoints role of insulin on glucagon levels
Apr 07, 2009 |
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April 7, 2009 - Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown for the first time that insulin plays a key role in suppressing levels of glucagon, a hormone involved in carbohydrate metabolism and regulating blood glucose ...
Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes
Nov 12, 2009 |
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How a specific gene within the pancreas affects secretion of insulin has been discovered by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Japanese and American universities. Their ...
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