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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered one of the pathogenic components of diabetes in the heart, as published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
While both heart disease and diabetes are widely studied, how diabetic cardiomyopathy develops is not well understood, other than that it seemed to be linked to protein kinase C (PKC) -- a family of enzymes that controls the functions of other proteins by using phosphates to turn them on and off.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131106122115.htm
While both heart disease and diabetes are widely studied, how diabetic cardiomyopathy develops is not well understood, other than that it seemed to be linked to protein kinase C (PKC) -- a family of enzymes that controls the functions of other proteins by using phosphates to turn them on and off.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131106122115.htm