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Diabetes - Islet Cell Exocytosis

Faculty of Medicine / Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö

Fax number: +46 40 39 12 22

Visiting address: CRC, Hus 91 plan 11, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Malmö

Diabetes - Islet Cell Exocytosis' profile in Lund University Research portal

Description

The overall objective of our research is to investigate how Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) associated environmental factors effects the islet hormone secretion with a specific focus on how impaired exocytosis is involved in the etiology of the disease. We investigate from a cell physiological perspective the regulation of insulin and glucagon secretion from the pancreatic beta – and alpha cells, respectively. We have a specific interest in how non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are involved in this regulation. Belonging to the group of ncRNAs are microRNAs (miRNA). The function of miRNAs is to suppress the expression of genes and we investigate specific miRNAs involved in the regulation of alpha- and beta-cell stimulus-secretion coupling and exocytosis. Ultimately, our research gives new insight into treatment and discovery strategies of T2D, and we anticipate our novel findings will be essential for future prediction, prevention and treatment of T2D.

Staff

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  • Yara Al-Selwi

    Visiting research fellow

    yara [dot] al-selwi [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

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  • Mototsugu Nagao

    Affiliated researcher

    mototsugu [dot] nagao [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

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  • Alessio Pollastri

    Research project participant

    alessio [dot] pollastri [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

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  • Anna Wendt

    Assistant researcher

    anna [dot] wendt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

  • Efraim Westholm

    Research student

    efraim [dot] westholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se