α-Melanocyte stimulating hormone promotes muscle glucose uptake via melanocortin 5 receptors

• Main Authors: Pablo J. Enriori (Author), Weiyi Chen (Author), Maria C. Garcia-Rudaz (Author), Bernadette E. Grayson (Author), Anne E. Evans (Author), Sarah M. Comstock (Author), Ursel Gebhardt (Author), Hermann L. Müller (Author), Thomas Reinehr (Author), Belinda A. Henry (Author), Russell D. Brown (Author), Clinton R. Bruce (Author), Stephanie E. Simonds (Author), Sara A. Litwak (Author), Sean L. McGee (Author), Serge Luquet (Author), Sarah Martinez (Author), Martin Jastroch (Author), Matthias H. Tschöp (Author), Matthew J. Watt (Author), Iain J. Clarke (Author), Christian L. Roth (Author), Kevin L. Grove (Author), Michael A. Cowley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Central melanocortin pathways are well-established regulators of energy balance. However, scant data exist about the role of systemic melanocortin peptides. We set out to determine if peripheral α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) plays a role in glucose homeostasis and tested the hy...