Figure 4.
Effect of hepatocyte EVs on insulin receptor.
The β-subunit of insulin receptor was sequentially cleaved by both the calpain 2 and γ-secretase from hepatocyte EVs. The damaged insulin receptor impairs the insulin signalling pathway.
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