PJ Roach - Current molecular medicine, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose which serves as a reservoir of glucose units. The two largest deposits in mammals are in the liver and skeletal muscle but many cells are …
L Agius - Biochemical Journal, 2008 - portlandpress.com
Conversion of glucose into glycogen is a major pathway that contributes to the removal of glucose from the portal vein by the liver in the postprandial state. It is regulated in part by the …
C Bouche, S Serdy, CR Kahn, AB Goldfine - Endocrine reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Type 2 diabetes is a complex disorder with diminished insulin secretion and insulin action contributing to the hyperglycemia and wide range of metabolic defects that underlie the …
L Agius - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Liver glycogen is synthesized after a meal in response to an increase in blood glucose concentration in the portal vein and endocrine and neuroendocrine signals, and is degraded …
JC Ferrer, C Favre, RR Gomis, JM Fernández-Novell… - FEBS letters, 2003 - Elsevier
Traditionally, glycogen synthase (GS) has been considered to catalyze the key step of glycogen synthesis and to exercise most of the control over this metabolic pathway …
NG Oikonomakos - Current Protein and Peptide Science, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
The regulation of the hepatic glucose output through glycogenolysis is an important target for type 2 diabetes therapy. Glycogenolysis is catalyzed in liver, muscle and brain by tissue …
L Agius - Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2007 - Elsevier
Type-2 diabetes is associated with impaired glucose clearance by the liver in the postprandial state, and with elevated glucose production in the post-absorptive state. New …
Y Nozaki, MC Petersen, D Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Multiple insulin-regulated enzymes participate in hepatic glycogen synthesis, and the rate- controlling step responsible for insulin stimulation of glycogen synthesis is unknown. We …