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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Cilia are tiny extensions on cells and they are credited with many important functions, including transduction of signals in cells. Defects in cilia have been implied in several diseases and pathological conditions. Thus, scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, University College London and the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) took interest in the role of cilia in blood glucose regulation and type 2-diabetes.
“It has been known for some time that the rate of type 2 diabetes is above average in people with ciliopathy, which is a pathological ciliary dysfunction”, says Dr. Jantje Gerdes, previously at Karolinska Institutet and now at the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at the HMGU, first author of the study. “Our results confirm this observation and additionally explain how cilia are linked to glucose metabolism and diabetes.”
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ains-the-link-between-cilia-and-diabetes.html
“It has been known for some time that the rate of type 2 diabetes is above average in people with ciliopathy, which is a pathological ciliary dysfunction”, says Dr. Jantje Gerdes, previously at Karolinska Institutet and now at the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at the HMGU, first author of the study. “Our results confirm this observation and additionally explain how cilia are linked to glucose metabolism and diabetes.”
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ains-the-link-between-cilia-and-diabetes.html