Shikonin Increases Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle Cells and Improves Plasma Glucose Levels in Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki Rats

• Anette I. Öberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anette I. Öberg, Kamal Yassin

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Kamal Yassin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anette I. Öberg, Kamal Yassin

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Robert I. Csikasz,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Nodi Dehvari,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Irina G. Shabalina,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Dana S. Hutchinson,

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Mona Wilcke,

  Affiliation Glucox Biotech AB, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Claes-Göran Östenson,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Tore Bengtsson

  * E-mail: tore.bengtsson@wgi.su.se

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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