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Dialogue between muscle and fat

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Knocking out a glucose transporter in fat cells also affects the uptake of glucose into muscle cells, which may prompt a rethink of the transporter's role in diabetes.

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Figure 1: Communication between fat, muscle and liver.

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Birnbaum, M. Dialogue between muscle and fat. Nature 409, 672–673 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35055643

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