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ReviewJournal of diabetes investigation2012

Cholesterol-enriched membrane rafts and insulin secretion.

Ronald Dirkx, Michele Solimena

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Review in Journal of diabetes investigation, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ronald DirkxMolecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic "Carl Gustav Carus", Dresden University of Technology.
Michele SolimenaMolecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic "Carl Gustav Carus", Dresden University of Technology ; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics · DEPaul Langerhans Institute Dresden · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The failure of pancreatic β-cells to supply insulin in quantities sufficient to maintain euglycemia is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Perturbation of β-cell cholesterol homeostasis, culminating in elevated intracellular cholesterol levels, impairs insulin secretion and has therefore been proposed as a mechanism contributing to β-cell dysfunction. The manner in which this occurs, however, is unclear. Cholesterol is an essential lipid, as well as a major component of membrane rafts, and numerous proteins critical for the regulation of insulin secretion have been reported to associate with these domains. Although this suggests that alterations in membrane rafts could partially account for the reduction in insulin secretion observed when β-cell cholesterol accumulates, this has not yet been demonstrated. In this review, we provide a brief overview of recent work implicating membrane rafts in some of the basic molecular mechanisms of insulin secretion, and discuss the insight it provides into the β-cell dysfunction characteristic of type 2 diabetes. (J Diabetes Invest, doi: 10.1111/j.2040-1124.2012.00200.x, 2012).

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CholesterolPancreatic β‐cellType 2 diabetes

Identifiers

PMID24843586
PMCPMC4019251
OpenAlexW1568949754

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