Agonism and antagonism at the insulin receptor.

Insulin can trigger metabolic as well as mitogenic effects, the latter being pharmaceutically undesirable. An understanding of the structure/function relationships between insulin receptor (IR) binding and mitogenic/metabolic signalling would greatly facilitate the preclinical development of new ins...

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Main Authors: Louise Knudsen, Bo Falck Hansen, Pia Jensen, Thomas Åskov Pedersen, Kirsten Vestergaard, Lauge Schäffer, Blagoy Blagoev, Martin B Oleksiewicz, Vladislav V Kiselyov, Pierre De Meyts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3531387?pdf=render