V. VISENTIN

Tyramine and benzylamine partially but selectively mimic insulin action on adipose differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells. (2003)

SUBRA, C., FONTANA, E., VISENTIN, V., TESTAR, X., CARPÉNÉ, C.

Biogenic amines like tyramine, methylamine and the non-naturally occuring amine, benzylamine, have been described to promote adipose conversion of murine 3T3 preadipocytes. To further investigate...

Effect of prolonged treatment with tyramine on glucose tolerance in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. (2003)

VISENTIN, V., MARQ, P., BOUR, S., SUBRA, C., PRÉVOT, D., MORIN, N., ...

The biogenic amine tyramine has been reported to stimulate in vitro glucose transport in adipocytes, cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle, and to improve in vivo glucose utilization in rats. These...

Moderate weight-lowering effect of octopamine treatment in obese Zucker rats. (2003)

BOUR, S., VISENTIN, V., PRÉVOT, D., CARPÉNÉ, C.

Octopamine is proposed as a substitution product of synephrine by diverse drug industries that advertise new weight-lowering products or medicinal plants enriched in this biogenic amine. We have...