Protein Critical For Insulin Secretion May Be Contributor To Diabetes

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 21:20 in Health & Medicine

A cellular protein from a family involved in several human diseases is crucial for the proper production and release of insulin, new research has found, suggesting that the protein might play a role in diabetes. Mice lacking the ClC-3 channel, a passageway that allows negatively-charged chloride ions to pass through cell membranes, have only one-fifth the circulating insulin of normal mice, according to new research.

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