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Glucose Transporter Type 2

"Glucose Transporter Type 2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A glucose transport facilitator that is expressed primarily in PANCREATIC BETA CELLS; LIVER; and KIDNEYS. It may function as a GLUCOSE sensor to regulate INSULIN release and glucose HOMEOSTASIS.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glucose Transporter Type 2" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Glucose Transporter Type 2" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 38 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2003
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.