Melatonin in type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity

A Karamitri, R Jockers - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2019 - nature.com
Despite considerable advances in the past few years, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus
(T2DM) remain two major challenges for public health systems globally. In the past 9 years …

Membrane melatonin receptors activated cell signaling in physiology and disease

G Nikolaev, R Robeva, R Konakchieva - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pineal hormone melatonin has attracted great scientific interest since its discovery in
1958. Despite the enormous number of basic and clinical studies the exact role of melatonin …

Novel genetic loci identified for the pathophysiology of childhood obesity in the Hispanic population

AG Comuzzie, SA Cole, SL Laston, VS Voruganti… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genetic variants responsible for susceptibility to obesity and its comorbidities among
Hispanic children have not been identified. The VIVA LA FAMILIA Study was designed to …

Melatonin, the circadian multioscillator system and health: the need for detailed analyses of peripheral melatonin signaling

R Hardeland, JA Madrid, DX Tan… - Journal of pineal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence is accumulating regarding the importance of circadian core oscillators, several
associated factors, and melatonin signaling in the maintenance of health. Dysfunction of …

Melatonin in aging and disease—multiple consequences of reduced secretion, options and limits of treatment

R Hardeland - Aging and disease, 2011 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Melatonin is a pleiotropically acting regulator molecule, which influences numerous
physiological functions. Its secretion by the pineal gland progressively declines by age …

Association of genetic Loci with glucose levels in childhood and adolescence: a meta-analysis of over 6,000 children

A Barker, SJ Sharp, NJ Timpson, N Bouatia-Naji… - Diabetes, 2011 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE To investigate whether associations of common genetic variants recently
identified for fasting glucose or insulin levels in nondiabetic adults are detectable in healthy …

Sugar-sweetened beverages consumption in relation to changes in body fatness over 6 and 12 years among 9-year-old children: the European Youth Heart Study

M Zheng, A Rangan, NJ Olsen… - European journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Results: Subjects who consumed more than one serve of SSB daily at age 15 years had
larger increases in body mass index (BMI)(β= 0.92, P= 0.046) and waist circumference …

Zinc Transporter 8 Autoantibodies and Their Association With SLC30A8 and HLA-DQ Genes Differ Between Immigrant and Swedish Patients With Newly Diagnosed …

AJ Delli, F Vaziri-Sani, B Lindblad, H Elding-Larsson… - Diabetes, 2012 - Am Diabetes Assoc
We examined whether zinc transporter 8 autoantibodies (ZnT8A; arginine ZnT8-RA,
tryptophan ZnT8-WA, and glutamine ZnT8-QA variants) differed between immigrant and …

Common Polymorphisms in MTNR1B, G6PC2 and GCK Are Associated with Increased Fasting Plasma Glucose and Impaired Beta-Cell Function in Chinese …

CHT Tam, JSK Ho, Y Wang, HM Lee, VKL Lam… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Previous studies identified melatonin receptor 1B (MTNR1B), islet-specific
glucose 6 phosphatase catalytic subunit-related protein (G6PC2), glucokinase (GCK) and …

Minireview: Toward the Establishment of a Link between Melatonin and Glucose Homeostasis: Association of Melatonin MT2 Receptor Variants with Type 2 Diabetes

A Karamitri, N Renault, N Clement… - Molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The existence of interindividual variations in G protein-coupled receptor sequences has
been recognized early on. Recent advances in large-scale exon sequencing techniques are …