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Endoplasmic reticulum stress and eIF2α phosphorylation: The Achilles heel of pancreatic β cells

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Pancreatic β cells are sensitive to excessive endoplasmic reticulum stress and dysregulated eIF2α phosphorylation, as indicated by transcriptome data, monogenic forms of diabetes and pharmacological studies, and should be taken into consideration when devising new therapeutic approaches for diabetes.
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Background Pancreatic β cell dysfunction and death are central in the pathogenesis of most if not all forms of diabetes. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying β cell failure is important to develop β cell protective approaches.

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Progress in Research on the Alleviation of Glucose Metabolism Disorders in Type 2 Diabetes Using Cyclocarya paliurus

TL;DR: The mechanism of glucose metabolism regulation by C. paliurus was reviewed to provide a reference to prevent and treat diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, obesity, and other metabolic diseases.
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Targeting pancreatic beta cell death in type 2 diabetes by polyphenols

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the possible effects that different polyphenols could exert in the modulation of these mechanisms and regulating pancreatic beta cell viability, and they also developed more accurate and target treatments for controlling beta cell homeostasis and preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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A novel GPR119 agonist DA-1241 preserves pancreatic function via the suppression of ER stress and increased PDX1 expression.

TL;DR: In this paper, a small molecule G protein-coupled receptor 119 (GPR119) agonist, DA-1241, was used in early clinical development for type 2 diabetic patients.
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Novel mechanisms of glucolipotoxic pancreatic beta cell death

Katie Hanna
TL;DR: GLT can result in acetylation of histones H3 and H4, subsequent to TCA cycle dysregulation and disruption to fatty acid synthesis and cholesterol biosynthesis pathways, indicating that GLT can affect gene transcription.
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Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that iPS cells can be generated from adult human fibroblasts with the same four factors: Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc.
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Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

TL;DR: Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but do not characterize other early lineages.
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A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.

TL;DR: This study reveals a family of endonucleases that use dual-RNAs for site-specific DNA cleavage and highlights the potential to exploit the system for RNA-programmable genome editing.
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The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

John T. Lonsdale, +129 more
- 29 May 2013 - 
TL;DR: The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project is described, which will establish a resource database and associated tissue bank for the scientific community to study the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression in human tissues.
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Signal integration in the endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response

TL;DR: Together, at least three mechanistically distinct arms of the UPR regulate the expression of numerous genes that function within the secretory pathway but also affect broad aspects of cell fate and the metabolism of proteins, amino acids and lipids.
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