Forskningsgruppeleder

Hege Thoresen

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Beskrivelse

Muscle metabolism related to type 2 diabetes and obesity.

The focus of the Muscle Research Group is to study skeletal muscle molecular mechanisms related to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). Skeletal muscle is of particular interest in metabolic diseases and disease prevention since it is the major/only strongly regulated energy consumer in the human body, and recent molecular biology discoveries in the field of muscle fiber transformations now make it a fertile field for drug discovery related to T2D. The idea is to integrate pathological human biological material and knowledge from controlled animal experiments and in vitro muscle cell models, with drug design as a final goal.

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