Diabetes mellitus : methods and protocols /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Özcan, Sabire
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana, [2003]
Series:Methods in molecular medicine ; 83.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Isolation of islets of Langerhans from rodent pancreas
  • Purification of rat pancreatic beta-cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting
  • Assessment of insulin secretion in the mouse
  • Detection of insulin production by immunohistochemistry
  • Quantification of the level of insulin gene expression
  • Chromatin immunoprecipitation using isolated islets of Langerhans
  • Adenoviral gene transfer into beta-cell lines
  • Utilization of NOD mice in the study of type 1 diabetes
  • Introduction of DNA into 3T3-L1 adipocytes by electroporation
  • Analysis of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes
  • Fractionation analysis of the subcellular distribution of GLUT-4 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
  • Visualization and quantitation of integral membrane sheet assay
  • Assaying tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrates
  • Measuring insulin-stimulated phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase activity
  • Assaying AKT/protein kinase B activity
  • Measurements of cellular phosphoinositide levels in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
  • Measurement of glycogen synthesis and glycogen synthase activity in 3T3-1 adipocytes
  • Measurement of contraction-stimulated GLUT-4 translocation in isolated skeletal muscle
  • Single embryo measurement of basal- and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake
  • Immunohistologic staining of muscle and embryos to detect insulin-stimulated translocation of glucose transporters