Title : Lipid microdomains and insulin resistance: is there a connection?

Pub. Date : 2005 Jan 25

PMID : 15671480






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1 The potential contribution of lipids to insulin signaling has excited interest because of the notion that cholesterol and sphingolipids form functional microdomains-lipid rafts-in cell membranes and that these domains may affect signal transduction. Sphingolipids insulin Homo sapiens
2 In this Perspective, we discuss the evidence suggesting that cholesterol-sphingolipid rafts play a role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance. Sphingolipids insulin Homo sapiens