Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34779282›Full record

ReviewPhysiology (Bethesda, Md.)2022

Insulin, Muscle Glucose Uptake, and Hexokinase: Revisiting the Road Not Taken.

David H Wasserman

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Review in Physiology (Bethesda, Md.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 37 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David H WassermanDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-3095-2665
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Vanderbilt Diabetes Research CenterP30DK020593 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI ALVIN C POWERS · 2012 to 2026
$29.3M
Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Physiology CenterU24DK059637 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 2001 to 2015
$14.9M
Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping CenterU2CDK059637 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 2016 to 2021
$6.3M
INTEGRATED CONTROL OF MUSCLE GLUCOSE UPTAKE IN VIVOR01DK054902 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 1999 to 2020
$5.9M
Role of the Cell Adhesome in Obesity-related Liver DiseasesR01DK050277 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MCGUINNESS, OWEN P · 1995 to 2023
$4.8M
Exercise and Fuel MetabolismR37DK050277 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 2008 to 2017
$4.2M
Integrated Control of Muscle Glucose Uptake in VivoR56DK054902 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 2009 to 2009
$388k
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK020593NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK050277NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK054902NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK050277NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK054902NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK059637
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research conducted over the last 50 yr has provided insight into the mechanisms by which insulin stimulates glucose transport across the skeletal muscle cell membrane Transport alone, however, does not result in net glucose uptake as free glucose equilibrates across the cell membrane and is not metabolized. Glucose uptake requires that glucose is phosphorylated by hexokinases. Phosphorylated glucose cannot leave the cell and is the substrate for metabolism. It is indisputable that glucose phosphorylation is essential for glucose uptake. Major advances have been made in defining the regulation of the insulin-stimulated glucose transporter (GLUT4) in skeletal muscle. By contrast, the insulin-regulated hexokinase (hexokinase II) parallels Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Here the case is made that an understanding of glucose phosphorylation by hexokinase II is necessary to define the regulation of skeletal muscle glucose uptake in health and insulin resistance. Results of studies from different physiological disciplines that have elegantly described how hexokinase II can be regulated are summarized to provide a framework for potential application to skeletal muscle. Mechanisms by which hexokinase II is regulated in skeletal muscle await rigorous examination.

Indexed as

HexokinaseInsulinBiological TransportGlucoseHumansMuscle, SkeletalGlucoseHexokinaseInsulinglucoseGLUT4hexokinaseinsulinmuscle

Identifiers

PMID34779282
PMCPMC8977147
OpenAlexW3214067658

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