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Long term exposure to incretin hormones is known to have salutory effects on beta cell function and viability. More...

Long term exposure to incretin hormones is known to have salutory effects on beta cell function and viability. While short-term cAMP induction is known to have a signature CREB-CRTC target gene response, the long-term effects of cAMP on beta cell gene expression are less well understood. We used rat microarray analysis to compare the genome-wide gene expression response to short-term (2 hours) and long-term (16 hours) stimulations of the cAMP agonist forskolin in INS-1 insulinoma cells. Overall design: INS-1 cells were exposed to forskolin for 2 or 16 hours in RPMI medium containing 10% serum. Control samples wer incubated for the same time without forskolin. Extracted RNA was used for hybridization on Affymetrix rat 1.0 st gene arrays. Less...