Population
Single myocytes isolated from adult rat ventricles
Comparison
Incubation with insulin vs Incubation without insulin
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating in rat myocytes; leaves open whether phosphorylation limits insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in human heart.
In adult rat ventricular myocytes, insulin dramatically increases glucose transport such that glucose phosphorylation becomes the rate-limiting step in glucose utilization.
Manchester et al. (1994) studied this question.
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