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MOLECULAR METABOLISM
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 372-383Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2014.03.002
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Glucose; Diabetes; Circadian rhythm; Hypothalamus; Autonomic nervous system
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL113180] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK078750] Funding Source: Medline
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The incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has risen to epidemic proportions. The pathophysiology of T2DM is complex and involves insulin resistance, pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction and visceral adiposity. It has been known for decades that a disruption of biological rhythms (which happens the most profoundly with shift work) increases the risk of developing obesity and T2DM. Recent evidence from basal studies has further sparked interest in the involvement of daily rhythms (and their disruption) in the development of obesity and T2DM. Most living organisms have molecular clocks in almost every tissue, which govern rhythmicity in many domains of physiology, such as rest/activity rhythms, feeding/fasting rhythms, and hormonal secretion. Here we present the latest research describing the specific role played by the molecular clock mechanism in the control of glucose metabolism and speculate on how disruption of these tissue clocks may lead to the disturbances in glucose homeostasis. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (httplicrea:ivecommons.orgt !ceases/by-no-nil/3.04
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