Erschienen in:
22.09.2016 | Commentary
Metabolic coupling in pancreatic beta cells: lipolysis revisited
verfasst von:
Hindrik Mulder
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 12/2016
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Diabetologia, Marc Prentki and his group [
1] add another piece to the puzzle of how lipids are involved in the metabolic control of insulin secretion. While it is generally accepted that increases in blood glucose are transmitted into metabolic changes inside the beta cell, triggering secretion of insulin, the way in which insulin secretion is amplified and sustained is less clear but likely as important,. The work by Attané and colleagues [
1] enhances our understanding of the role of lipid metabolism in this context and may shed further light on why insulin secretion fails in type 2 diabetes. …