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Akt signaling mediates postnatal heart growth in response to insulin and nutritional status.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 4 Oct 2002
Shiojima Ichiro, Yefremashvili Mikkael, Luo Zhengyu, Kureishi Yasuko, Takahashi Akihiro, Tao Jingzang, Rosenzweig Anthony, Kahn C Ronald, Abel E Dale, Walsh Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
Akt is a serine-threonine kinase that mediates a variety of cellular responses to external stimuli. During postnatal development, Akt signaling in the heart was up-regulated when the heart was rapidly growing and was down-regulated by caloric restriction, suggesting a role of Akt in nutrient-dependent regulation of cardiac growth. Consistent with this notion, reductions in Akt, 70-kDa S6 kinase 1, and eukaryotic...
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