Defining the underlying defect in insulin action in type 2 diabetes

TM Batista, N Haider, CR Kahn - Diabetologia, 2021 - Springer
Insulin resistance is one of the earliest defects in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Over
the past 50 years, elucidation of the insulin signalling network has provided important …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes

N Pervjakova, GH Moen, MC Borges… - Human Molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with increased risk of pregnancy
complications and adverse perinatal outcomes. GDM often reoccurs and is associated with …

Impaired skeletal muscle regeneration in diabetes: From cellular and molecular mechanisms to novel treatments

E Espino-Gonzalez, E Dalbram, R Mounier, J Gondin… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Diabetes represents a major public health concern with a considerable impact on human life
and healthcare expenditures. It is now well established that diabetes is characterized by a …

Aerobic exercise prevents chronic inflammation and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle of high-fat diet mice

N Li, H Shi, Q Guo, Y Gan, Y Zhang, J Jia, L Zhang… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Obesity is commonly accompanied by chronic tissue inflammation and leads to insulin
resistance. Aerobic exercise is an essential treatment for insulin resistance and has anti …

High-throughput functional dissection of noncoding SNPs with biased allelic enhancer activity for insulin resistance-relevant phenotypes

YY Duan, XF Chen, RJ Zhu, YY Jia, XT Huang… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Most of the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with insulin resistance (IR)-
relevant phenotypes by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are located in …

Contraction influences Per2 gene expression in skeletal muscle through a calcium‐dependent pathway

L Small, A Altıntaş, RC Laker, A Ehrlich… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Exercising at different times of day elicits different effects on exercise
performance and metabolic health. However, the specific signals driving the observed time …

Prolonged FOS activity disrupts a global myogenic transcriptional program by altering 3D chromatin architecture in primary muscle progenitor cells

AR Barutcu, G Elizalde, AE Gonzalez, K Soni, JL Rinn… - Skeletal Muscle, 2022 - Springer
Background The AP-1 transcription factor, FBJ osteosarcoma oncogene (FOS), is induced in
adult muscle satellite cells (SCs) within hours following muscle damage and is required for …

The dawn of the functional genomics era in muscle physiology

RAE Seaborne, J Ochala - The Journal of Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle is the most abundant component of the mature mammalian phenotype.
Designed to generate contractile force and movement, skeletal muscle is crucial for …

Myod1 and GR coordinate myofiber-specific transcriptional enhancers

D Rovito, AI Rerra, V Ueberschlag-Pitiot… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Skeletal muscle is a dynamic tissue the size of which can be remodeled through the
concerted actions of various cues. Here, we investigated the skeletal muscle transcriptional …

Implicating type 2 diabetes effector genes in relevant metabolic cellular models using promoter-focused Capture-C

NA Wachowski, JA Pippin, K Boehm, S Lu, ME Leonard… - Diabetologia, 2024 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of type
2 diabetes loci, with the vast majority of signals located in non-coding regions; as a …