Overexpression of Alpha2A-Adrenergic Receptors Contributes to Type 2 Diabetes

  • Anders H. Rosengren
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Ramunas Jokubka
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Damon Tojjar
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Charlotte Granhall
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Ola Hansson
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Dai-Qing Li
    Key Laboratory of Hormones and Development, Ministry of Health, China, Tianjin Metabolic Diseases Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, China.
  • Vini Nagaraj
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Thomas M. Reinbothe
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Jonatan Tuncel
    Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Lena Eliasson
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Leif Groop
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Patrik Rorsman
    Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
  • Albert Salehi
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Valeriya Lyssenko
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Holger Luthman
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
  • Erik Renström
    Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, SE-20502 Malmö, Sweden.

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公開日
2010-01-08
DOI
  • 10.1126/science.1176827
公開者
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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<jats:title>Ratting Out a Diabetes Gene</jats:title> <jats:p> Inbred animals with inherited susceptibility to disease can be especially informative regarding pathogenetic mechanisms because they carry naturally occurring genetic variants of the same type that cause disease in humans. This principle is illustrated by <jats:bold> Rosengren <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" page="217" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="327" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1176827">217</jats:related-article> ; published online 19 November), whose analysis of an inbred strain of rats prone to develop type 2 diabetes led to the discovery of a gene whose aberrant overexpression suppresses pancreatic insulin secretion in both rats and humans. The culprit gene, ADRA2A, encodes the alpha2A adrenergic receptor and is potentially a valuable lead for diabetes therapy because it can be targeted pharmacologically. </jats:p>

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    Science 327 (5962), 217-220, 2010-01-08

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