supported by The Mike Hogg Fund;Baylor College of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program,NICHD R01HD099252(to RJP)and R01HD098131(to RJP);the NHLBI T32 HL092332(to ASB)。
Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients have a markedly higher risk of developing dementia.While multiple factors contribute to this predisposition,one of these involves the increased secretion of amylin,or islet amyloid po...
This work was supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82070392 and 81900332).
Co-secretion with insulin,highly amyloidogenic human amylin is considered to contribute to the initiation and progression of diabetic heart complications,despite other situations such as hypertension and atheroscleros...
funded by Xunta de Galicia grant number GRC2013/015 and GPC2017/015(Spain)。
Diabetes mellitus is a major health problem with increasing prevalence at a global level.The discovery of insulin in the early 1900 s represented a major breakthrough in diabetes management,with further milestones bei...
supported by iNOVA4Health-UID/Multi/04462/2019,a program financially supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/Ministério da Educação e Ciência,through national funds and co-funded by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement,Funding from INTERFACE Programme,through the Innovation,Technology and Circular Economy Fund(FITEC),FCT via PTDC/BIA-MOL/31104/2017 and UID/Multi/04462/2019-SubProj iNOVA4Health C44(to RM),PD/BD/135504/2018(to AFR);Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia for the Nuno Castelo-Branco Prize-2016(to RM),and ICM acknowledges FCT-MCTES Program“Concurso de Estímulo ao Emprego Científico”(CEECIND/01670/2017).
Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions worldwide.Due to population ageing,the incidence of AD is increasing.AD patients develop cognitive decline and dementia,features for which ...
Alzheimer disease(AD) and typeⅡdiabetes mellitus(DM2) are the most common disease in aging people,with β-amyloid and amylin accumulation respectively.Studies have shown more and more correlations between these two d...
Objective:In the present study, the protein structure model of human amylin was generated to understand the protein's structure, function and mechanism of the action. Methods: The stereo chemical quality of the protei...