GLUT4

Concept

A glucose transporter protein expressed in muscles and fat cells, whose movement to the cell surface is critical for glucose uptake, often signaled by insulin or muscle contraction.

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Videos Mentioning GLUT4

#35 – Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging

Peter Attia MD

Glucose transporter type 4, the major glucose transporter in muscle cells, whose translocation to the plasma membrane is stimulated by insulin to facilitate glucose uptake.

How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety

Andrew Huberman

Molecules involved in shuttling glucose to muscle and glycogen stores and away from body fat stores, stimulated by movement and intense exercise.

312 - A masterclass in lactate: metabolic fuel, implications for diseases, and therapeutic potential

Peter Attia MD

A glucose transporter protein expressed in muscles and fat cells, whose movement to the cell surface is critical for glucose uptake, often signaled by insulin or muscle contraction.