Glucose is the major energy source for mammalian cells as well as an important substrate
for protein and lipid synthesis. Mammalian cells take up glucose from extracellular fluid into …

Insulin signalling is uniquely required for storing energy as fat in humans. While de novo
synthesis of fatty acids and triacylglycerol occurs mostly in liver, adipose tissue is the primary …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Mulberry leaves have been used as traditional
hypoglycemic medicine-food plant for thousand years in China. According to traditional …

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiometabolic alterations that include the presence
of arterial hypertension, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and abdominal obesity. Obesity is …

Eur J Clin Invest 2012; 42 (4): 357–364 Abstract Background Adipose tissue is a primary site
of obesity‐induced inflammation, which is emerging as an important contributor to obesity …

Impaired circulating estrogen levels have been related to impaired glycemic homeostasis
and diabetes mellitus (DM), both in females and males. However, for the last twenty years …

The study herein determined the role of nuclear factor erythoid 2–related factor 2 (Nrf2) in
the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Lep …

In this study, we investigated the structural characterization and antidiabetic effects of
Lactobacillus H31 exopolysaccharide (EPS) H31-2 from pickled cabbage. The BLAST result …

Type 2 diabetes originates in an expanding adipose tissue that for unknown reasons
becomes insulin resistant. Insulin resistance reflects impairments in insulin signaling, but …

The insulin-responsive glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) plays a key role in glucose uptake
and metabolism in insulin target tissues. Being a rate-limiting step in glucose metabolism …