TY - JOUR AU - Ruz-Maldonado, Inmaculada AU - Pingitore, Attilio AU - Liu, Bo AU - Atanes, Patricio AU - Huang, Guo Cai AU - Baker, David AU - Alonso, Francisco José AU - Bermúdez-Silva, Francisco Javier AU - Persaud, Shanta J PY - 2018 DO - 10.1111/dom.13180 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11877 T2 - Diabetes, obesity & metabolism AB - To examine the effects of Abn-CBD (GPR55 agonist) and LH-21 (CB1 antagonist) on human and mouse islet function, and to determine signalling via GPR55 using islets from GPR55-/- mice. Islets isolated from human organ donors and mice were incubated in... LA - en KW - cannabinoids KW - insulin secretion KW - islets KW - proliferation KW - β-cell function KW - Adult KW - Animals KW - Cells, Cultured KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Insulin-Secreting Cells KW - Islets of Langerhans KW - Male KW - Mice KW - Mice, Inbred C57BL KW - Mice, Knockout KW - Middle Aged KW - Receptors, Cannabinoid KW - Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled KW - Resorcinols KW - Signal Transduction KW - Triazoles TI - LH-21 and abnormal cannabidiol improve β-cell function in isolated human and mouse islets through GPR55-dependent and -independent signalling. TY - research article VL - 20 ER -