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Joseph L. Milburn

Researcher at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Publications -  11
Citations -  1539

Joseph L. Milburn is an academic researcher from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insulin & Glucose transporter. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 11 publications receiving 1510 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph L. Milburn include Tohoku University & University of Geneva.

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Pancreatic β-Cells in Obesity: EVIDENCE FOR INDUCTION OF FUNCTIONAL, MORPHOLOGIC, AND METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES BY INCREASED LONG CHAIN FATTY ACIDS (∗)

TL;DR: It is concluded that hypersecretion of insulin by islets of obese Zucker fatty rats is associated with, and probably caused by, enhanced low Km glucose metabolism and beta-cell hyperplasia, abnormalities that can be induced in normal islets by increased FFA.
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The high Km glucose transporter of islets of Langerhans is functionally similar to the low affinity transporter of liver and has an identical primary sequence.

TL;DR: Sequence analysis of cDNA clones indicates that the liver and islet glucose transporters have identical sequences and, thus, are the products of the same gene.
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Differential expression and regulation of the glucokinase gene in liver and islets of Langerhans

TL;DR: It is concluded that alternative splicing and/or the use of distinct tissue-specific promoters generate structurally distinct mRNA species in liver and islets of Langerhans and that tissue- specific transcription mechanisms result in inducible expression of the glucokinase gene in liver but not in islets during the fasting-refeeding transition.
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Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α in disease of pancreatic β cells

TL;DR: In this paper, the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) and enzymes of fatty acid (FA) oxidation is markedly reduced in the fat-laden, dysfunctional islets of obese, prediabetic Zucker diabetic fatty (fa/fa) rats with mutated leptin receptors (OB-R).