UC Davis chemist Marie Heffern is pioneering a new field, metalloendocrinology, exploring how metals such as iron, zinc and copper influence hormones. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Metals such as zinc, ...

To evaluate early changes in glycemia, insulin physiology and gut hormone responses to an easily tolerated and slowly ingested solid, low-carbohydrate mixed meal test (MMT) following laparoscopic ...

Insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which comprise insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and IGF2, influence overall brain development by affecting proliferation, survival and differentiation of ...

A PEPTIDE FORMED as part of insulin biosynthesis may have biological activity of its own and could have therapeutic benefits for patients with type 1 diabetes, who don't make sufficient insulin. When ...

Machinery inside cells can add sugar molecules to proteins and peptides to change their function and properties. So far, researchers have found sites of O-glycosylation—in which a sugar gets attached ...

Researchers have found protective, anti-diabetic functions for a hormone that, like insulin, is produced by the islet cells of the pancreas. The new hormone was found to stimulate insulin secretion ...

Peptides have become an increasingly important area of research in numerous scientific fields, especially for their diverse functions.

Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in Lake Nona, Florida have shown that enhanced natriuretic peptide (NP) signaling in adipose tissue protects against obesity and ...

Unigene Has Introduced an Enzyme-Based Assay for the Discovery of Amidated Peptides Peptides are among the most biologically relevant molecules known and also among the most productive areas of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We examined whether the rise in ketone body concentration around midnight and in the early morning was due to the lack of free insulin (IRI) ...