Effects of melanocortin neurons on systemic glucose homeostasis

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1065641

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

There is good evidence that the brain can control blood glucose, but we do not know how this occurs, or why this doesn’t work in diabetes. This grant will use cutting edge mouse genetic technology to determine how the brain controls blood glucose, and what changes in diabetes. This grant will determine how several hormones act through the brain to change glucose levels, and will help develop new strategies to treat high blood glucose.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $860,251.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cre induced gene knockout | diabetes mellitus | glucose homeostasis | hepatic metabolism | neuropeptide Y (NPY) | pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) | virus

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