Proinsulin
Reports from Zhejiang University School of Medicine Advance Knowledge in Proinsulin
Published in Health and Medicine Week, April 18th, 2011
2011 APR 18 -- Fresh data on Proinsulin are presented in the report 'Insulin increases glutamate transporter GLT1 in cultured astrocytes.' "The astroglial cell-specific glutamate transporter subtype 2 (excitatory amino acid transporter 2, GLT1) plays an important role in excitotoxicity that develops after damage to the central nervous system (CNS) is incurred. Both the protein kinase C signaling pathway and the epidermal growth factor (EGF) pathway have been suggested to participate in the modulation of GLT1, but the modulatory mechanisms of GLT1 expression are not fully understood," researchers in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China report.
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