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University of California - San Francisco
UCSF discovers new glucose-regulating protein linked with diabetes
June 17th, 2009
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and collaborators at Harvard Medical School have linked a specialized protein in human muscles to the process that clears glucose out of the bloodstream, shedding light on what goes wrong in type 2 diabetes on a cellular level. Establishing the function of this protein, which significantly is not present in mice, has broad implications for both the future study and possible therapies for diabetes, according to an article published in the May 29, 2009 issue of the journal "Science." While a significant amount of research into diabetes and many other diseases is conducted in mice, the...
Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2009-06-17)
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