TOR2A and diabetes mellitus: Cardiomyocytes cultured in HG was used as a model to mimic the increased glucose level in diabetes.30 HG increased salusin-β mRNA levels and upregulated salusin-β and its precursor prosalusin protein expression levels in H9c2 cells, suggesting that HG is a stimulator of salusin-β expression at both transcriptional and post-translational levels.