objective: crocinisa saffron constituent with a potent anti-oxidant activity. the present study investigated the effects of crocin and insulin treatments (alone or in combination) on cardiac function and pathology in diabetic rats. materials and methods: diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of streptozotocin (stz, 50 mg/kg). thereafter, crocin (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg, i.p.), sub...

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a serious complication of diabetes caused by oxidative stress, inflammation, insulin resistance, myocardial fibrosis, and lipotoxicity; its nature insidious, complex difficult to treat. NLRP3 inflammasome triggers the maturation release pro-inflammatory cytokines, participates in pathophysiological processes such as resistance addition being closely related deve...

Objective: Crocinisa saffron constituent with a potent anti-oxidant activity. The present study investigated the effects of crocin and insulin treatments (alone or in combination) on cardiac function and pathology in diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: Diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of streptozotocin (STZ, 50 mg/kg). Thereafter, crocin (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg, i.p.), sub...

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a distinct clinical entity that produces asymptomatic heart failure in diabetic patients without evidence of coronary artery disease and hypertension. Abnormalities in diabetic cardiomyopathy include: myocardial hypertrophy, impairment of contractile proteins, accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins, formation of advanced glycation end products, and decreased le...

peraxisome prolifrator-activated receptors (ppars) are a group of nuclear receptors comprising three isoforms termed alpha, beta/delta and gamma. ppars can modulate metabolic processes especially fatty acid (fa) metabolisms via exerting transcriptional control on activating genes involved in fuel utilization. thus, they can exert positive role in controlling chronic diseases such as diabetes. a...

Many diabetic patients suffer from cardiomyopathy, even in the absence of vascular disease. This diabetic cardiomyopathy predisposes patients to heart failure and mortality from myocardial infarction. Evidence from animal models suggests that reactive oxygen species play an important role in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Our laboratory previously developed a transgenic mouse model...

Patients with diabetes often develop hypertension and atherosclerosis leading to cardiovascular disease. However, some diabetic patients develop heart failure without hypertension and coronary artery disease, a process termed diabetic cardiomyopathy. Phlorizin has been reported to be effective as an antioxidant in treating diabetes mellitus, but little is known about its cardioprotective effect...

BACKGROUND Diabetic cardiomyopathy, which contributes to >50% diabetic death, is featured by myocardial lipid accumulation, hypertrophy, fibrosis, and cardiac dysfunction. The mechanism underlying diabetic cardiomyopathy is poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that a striated muscle-specific E3 ligase Mitsugumin 53 (MG53, or TRIM72) constitutes a primary causal factor of systemic insuli...

Independent of the severity of coronary artery disease, diabetic patients have an increased risk of developing heart failure. This clinical entity has been considered to be a distinct disease process referred to as 'diabetic cardiomyopathy'. Experimental studies suggest that extensive metabolic perturbations may underlie both functional and structural alterations of the diabetic myocardium. Tra...