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Transgenic mice with dominant negative PKC-theta in skeletal muscle: a new model of insulin resistance and obesity.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Jul 2003
Serra C, Federici M, Buongiorno A, Senni M I, Morelli S, Segratella E, Pascuccio M, Tiveron C, Mattei E, Tatangelo L, Lauro R, Molinaro M, Giaccari A, Bouché Marina
Abstract excerpt
Protein kinase C theta (PKC-theta) is the PKC isoform predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle, and it is supposed to mediate many signals necessary for muscle histogenesis and homeostasis, such as TGFbeta, nerve-dependent signals and insulin. To study the role of PKC-theta in these mechanisms we generated transgenic mice expressing a "kinase dead" mutant form of PKC-theta (PKC-thetaK/R), working as "dominant...
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