Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Adipocyte Gq signaling is a regulator of glucose and lipid homeostasis in mice

  • Takefumi Kimura,
  • Sai P. Pydi,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Dhanush Haspula,
  • Yinghong Cui,
  • Huiyan Lu,
  • Gabriele M. König,
  • Evi Kostenis,
  • Gregory R. Steinberg,
  • Oksana Gavrilova,
  • Jürgen Wess

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29231-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Obesity impairs regulation of adipocyte lipolysis, which contributes towards development of insulin resistance. Here the authors report that adipocyte Gq signaling functions as a regulator of lipolysis and systemic glucose and lipid homeostasis in mice, suggesting that agents able to stimulate this pathway may prove useful as antidiabetic drugs.