Review: Free fatty acid receptors: Emerging targets for treatment of diabetes and its complications

Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 165-175

  Kennedy, R Lee ^a   Vangaveti, Venkat ^a   Jarrod, Ghassan ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; diabetes; drug therapies; free fatty acid; G protein coupled receptor

Indexed keywords

4 PHENETHYNYLDIHYDROCINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; 9 HYDROXYOCTADECADIENOIC ACID; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; AR 231453; CHOLECYSTOKININ; DC 260126; DIACYLPHLOROGLUCINOL DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; FREE FATTY ACID RECEPTOR 2; FREE FATTY ACID RECEPTOR 3; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 119; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 119 AGONIST; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 120; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 132; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 40; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 40 AGONIST; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 84; GW 9508; INSULIN DERIVATIVE; LEPTIN; LINOLEIC ACID; N OLEOYLDOPAMINE; N OLEOYLETHANOLAMINE; PEPTIDE YY; SITAGLIPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARBOHYDRATE TOLERANCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79952825611     PISSN: 20420188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2042018810381066     Document Type: Review

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