Glucose Transporter Gene Expression and Glucose Resistance
publication date: Aug 10, 2011
Underlying the origin of insulin resistance in muscle is the genetic basis for expressing glucose transporters in muscle and in the brain. In human evolution, a larger brain became possible with mutations in the SLC2A1 gene in the brain and in the muscle. Fewer such genes were expressed in human muscle and more of them in human brain tissue.
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