Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Neuronal signals regulate obesity induced β-cell proliferation by FoxM1 dependent mechanism

  • Junpei Yamamoto,
  • Junta Imai,
  • Tomohito Izumi,
  • Hironori Takahashi,
  • Yohei Kawana,
  • Kei Takahashi,
  • Shinjiro Kodama,
  • Keizo Kaneko,
  • Junhong Gao,
  • Kenji Uno,
  • Shojiro Sawada,
  • Tomoichiro Asano,
  • Vladimir V. Kalinichenko,
  • Etsuo A. Susaki,
  • Makoto Kanzaki,
  • Hiroki R. Ueda,
  • Yasushi Ishigaki,
  • Tetsuya Yamada,
  • Hideki Katagiri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01869-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Neuronal signals, in particular those transmitted via the vagal nerve, regulate both β-cell function and proliferation. Here, Yamamoto et al. show that the forkhead box M1 pathway is required for vagal signal-mediated induction of β-cell proliferation during obesity.