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ey0019.15-7 | New Hormones | ESPEYB19

15.7. A nutrient-specific gut hormone arbitrates between courtship and feeding

HH Lin , MC Kuang , I Hossain , Y Xuan , L Beebe , AK Shepherd , M Rolandi , JW Wang

Nature. 2022;602(7898):632-8. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04408-7.PubMed ID: 35140404Brief summary: This study in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster, identified a novel gut-derived, nutrient-specific neuropeptide hormone, ‘Diuretic hormone 31’ (Dh31), which triggers the insects to switch their behaviour from feeding to courtship and reproduction.Romantic di...

ey0018.10-8 | (1) | ESPEYB18

10.8. Absence of islet autoantibodies and modestly raised glucose values at diabetes diagnosis should Lead to testing for MODY: lessons from a 5-year pediatric Swedish National Cohort study

A Carlsson , M Shepherd , S Ellard , M Weedon , A Lernmark , G Forsander , K Colclough , Q Brahimi , C Valtonen-Andre , SA Ivarsson , H Elding Larsson , U Samuelsson , E Ortqvist , L Groop , J Ludvigsson , C Marcus , AT Hattersley

Diabetes Care. 2020; 43:82–89. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0747.It is often difficult to identify maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) in pediatric patients close to diabetes onset. Hence, misdiagnosis and unnecessary insulin treatment are still common.This study reports the discriminatory clinical features at diabetes onset in Swedish pediatric patients (age 1–18 y...