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The tangled path to glucose production

Nature Medicine volume 12, pages 33–34 (2006)Cite this article

Liver glucose production is crucial to survival during fast and is abnormally elevated in diabetes. Studies of the transcriptional coactivator Torc2 redefine the mechanism by which cAMP signaling affects fasting-induced glucogenesis.

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Figure 1: Pathways of gluconeogenesis.

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