Free fatty acid receptors as therapeutic targets for the treatment of diabetes

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Ichimura, Atsuhiko ^a,b   Hasegawa, Sae ^c   Kasubuchi, Mayu ^c   Kimura, Ikuo ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes; FFAR1; FFAR2; FFAR3; FFAR4; Free fatty acids; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949117719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2014.00236     Document Type: Article

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