Glucose uptake and insulin action in human adipose tissue—influence of BMI, anatomical depot and body fat distribution

The Effect of Insulin on the Disposal of Intravenous Glucose: Results from Indirect Calorimetry and Hepatic and Femoral Venous Catheterization

Ralph A. DeFronzo, E Jacot, E Jéquier et al. · Diabetes · 1981 · 1.8K citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Physiology +15

Contribution of intra-abdominal fat accumulation to the impairment of glucose and lipid metabolism in human obesity

Shigenori Fujioka, Yūji Matsuzawa, Katsuto Tokunaga et al. · Metabolism · 1987 · 1.2K citations

Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Physiology +16

The Influence of Body Fat Distribution on the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus: 13.5 Years of Follow-up of the Participants in the Study of Men Born in 1913

L.‐O. Ohlson, B. Larsson, Kurt Svärdsudd et al. · Diabetes · 1985 · 984 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Endocrinology +15

Essential role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in insulin-induced glucose transport and antilipolysis in rat adipocytes. Studies with a selective inhibitor wortmannin.

Taro Okada, Y. Kawano, Tsuneki Sakakibara et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1994 · 919 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Cell Biology +17

Rates and tissue sites of non-insulin- and insulin-mediated glucose uptake in humans

A. D. Baron, Ginger Brechtel, Penny Wallace et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism · 1988 · 652 citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Physiology +12