Metabolic syndrome: updates on pathophysiology and management in 2021

G Fahed, L Aoun, M Bou Zerdan, S Allam… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) forms a cluster of metabolic dysregulations including insulin
resistance, atherogenic dyslipidemia, central obesity, and hypertension. The pathogenesis …

From pre-diabetes to diabetes: diagnosis, treatments and translational research

RMM Khan, ZJY Chua, JC Tan, Y Yang, Z Liao, Y Zhao - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
Diabetes, a silent killer, is one of the most widely prevalent conditions of the present time.
According to the 2017 International Diabetes Federation (IDF) statistics, the global …

Senescence and aging: Causes, consequences, and therapeutic avenues

D McHugh, J Gil - Journal of Cell Biology, 2018 - rupress.org
Aging is the major risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and
neurodegenerative disorders. Although we are far from understanding the biological basis of …

[HTML][HTML] Diabetes mellitus: The epidemic of the century

AT Kharroubi, HM Darwish - World journal of diabetes, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The epidemic nature of diabetes mellitus in different regions is reviewed. The Middle East
and North Africa region has the highest prevalence of diabetes in adults (10.9%) whereas …

[HTML][HTML] Human beta cell mass and function in diabetes: Recent advances in knowledge and technologies to understand disease pathogenesis

C Chen, CM Cohrs, J Stertmann, R Bozsak… - Molecular metabolism, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Plasma insulin levels are predominantly the product of the morphological mass
of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans and the functional …

[HTML][HTML] The physiological, biochemical, and molecular roles of zinc transporters in zinc homeostasis and metabolism

T Kambe, T Tsuji, A Hashimoto… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Zinc is involved in a variety of biological processes, as a structural, catalytic, and intracellular
and intercellular signaling component. Thus zinc homeostasis is tightly controlled at the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors contributing to type 2 diabetes and recent advances in the treatment and prevention

Y Wu, Y Ding, Y Tanaka, W Zhang - International journal of medical …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Type 2 diabetes is a serious and common chronic disease resulting from a complex
inheritance-environment interaction along with other risk factors such as obesity and …

The ChinaMAP analytics of deep whole genome sequences in 10,588 individuals

Y Cao, L Li, M Xu, Z Feng, X Sun, J Lu, Y Xu, P Du… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic diseases are the most common and rapidly growing health issues worldwide. The
massive population-based human genetics is crucial for the precise prevention and …

Prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in obesity

L La Sala, AE Pontiroli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Obesity is one of the major risk factors for the development of both impaired glucose
tolerance (IGT, or prediabetes) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), and its prevalence worldwide …

The functions of metallothionein and ZIP and ZnT transporters: an overview and perspective

T Kimura, T Kambe - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Around 3000 proteins are thought to bind zinc in vivo, which corresponds to~ 10% of the
human proteome. Zinc plays a pivotal role as a structural, catalytic, and signaling component …