GLUT4 is at the center of a newly found mechanism of triglyceride production and utilization in type 2 diabetes

TITLE: GLUT4 glucose transporter deficiency increases hepatic lipid production and peripheral lipid utilization

AUTHOR CONTACT:
Barbara B. Kahn
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Phone: 617-667-5422
Fax: 617-667-2927
E-mail: bkahn@bidmc.harvard.edu.
View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/21341.pdf

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TITLE: Metabolic fuel election: the importance of being flexible

AUTHOR CONTACT:
Perry E. Bickel
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Phone: 314-747-3979
Fax: 314-362-7641
E-mail: pbickel@im.wustl.edu.
View the PDF of this commentary at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/23745.pdf

Lack of fibrillin-1 may lead to faulty heart valves

TITLE: TGF-betadependent pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome

AUTHOR CONTACT:
Daniel P. Judge
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Phone: 410-614-3085
Fax: 410-502-5336
E-mail: djudge@jhmi.edu.
View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/22715.pdf

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TITLE: Marfan syndrome and mitral valve prolapse

AUTHOR CONTACT:
Arthur E. Weyman
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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