News tagged with glucose homeostasis


Calorie reduction, not bypass surgery, ups diabetes control

(HealthDay)—Calorie reduction rather than the actual Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery seems to account for the improvement in glucose homeostasis in obese patients with type 2 diabetes who undergo ...

Diabetes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telmisartan reverses insulin resistance in mice

(HealthDay)—Treating mice fed a high-fat diet with telmisartan reverses insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, but only when the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ (PPAR-δ) gene is present, ...

Diabetes created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Xenotransplantation as a therapy for type 1 diabetes: Pig beta cells show great promise in an animal model

Transplantation of a whole pancreas or isolated insulin-producing beta cells are the only therapy to cure type I diabetes. However, the shortage of organ donors limits this approach to only few patients. LMU researchers have ...

Diabetes created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study links inactivity with risk factors for Type 2 diabetes

79 million American adults have prediabetes and will likely develop diabetes later in life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the number of people diagnosed with diabetes continues to grow, researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The metabolic effects of antipsychotic drugs

Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, may explain why some antipsychotic ...

Medical research created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0