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ATP-sensitive K+ channel signaling in glucokinase-deficient diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Oct 2005
Remedi Maria S, Koster Joseph C, Patton Brian L, Nichols Colin G
Abstract excerpt
As the rate-limiting controller of glucose metabolism, glucokinase represents the primary beta-cell "glucose sensor." Inactivation of both glucokinase (GK) alleles results in permanent neonatal diabetes; inactivation of a single allele causes maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 2 (MODY-2). Similarly, mice lacking both alleles (GK(-/-)) exhibit severe neonatal diabetes and die within a week, whereas...
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