Scientific article
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Increased neuronal nitric oxide synthase dimerisation is involved in rat and human pancreatic beta cell hyperactivity in obesity

Published inDiabetologia, vol. 54, no. 11, p. 2856-2866
Publication date2011
Abstract

Pancreatic beta cell hyperactivity is known to occur in obesity, particularly in insulin-resistant states. Our aim was to investigate whether changes in neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) function affect beta cell compensation in two relevant models: the Zucker fa/fa rats and pancreatic islets from obese humans.

Keywords
  • Animals
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Dimerization
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
  • Humans
  • Insulin/metabolism/secretion
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Insulin-Secreting Cells/drug effects/metabolism/secretion/ultrastructure
  • Islets of Langerhans/drug effects/metabolism/secretion/ultrastructure
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitochondria/drug effects/metabolism/ultrastructure
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I/antagonists & inhibitors/genetics/metabolism
  • Obesity/metabolism
  • Protein Transport
  • RNA, Messenger/metabolism
  • Rats
  • Rats, Mutant Strains
  • Rats, Zucker
  • Tissue Culture Techniques
Citation (ISO format)
MEZGHENNA, K et al. Increased neuronal nitric oxide synthase dimerisation is involved in rat and human pancreatic beta cell hyperactivity in obesity. In: Diabetologia, 2011, vol. 54, n° 11, p. 2856–2866. doi: 10.1007/s00125-011-2264-8
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