Glucocorticoids (GCs) are well known to induce insulin resistance. However, the effect of GCs on insulin secretion has not been well characterized under physiological conditions in human. We here evaluated the effect of GCs on insulin secretion/ß-cell function precisely in a physiological condition. A population-based study of 1,071 Japanese individuals enrolled in the 2014 Iwaki study (390 men...

BACKGROUND Notwithstanding previous studies supporting independent associations between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and prevalence of diabetes, the underlying pathogenesis of impaired glucose regulation in OSA remains unclear. We explored mechanisms linking OSA with prediabetes/diabetes and associated biomarker profiles. We hypothesized that OSA is associated with distinct alterations in gluc...

Révision des cicadelles Empoascini “rouges” genres Baguoidea Mahmood, 1967, Dayus 1967 et Homa Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) de l'Asie du Pacifique ouest. Les ouest appartenant aux and sont révisées. espèces sous-espèces suivantes traitées: rufa (Melichar, 1903) Sri Lanka Myanmar, placée comme synonyme senior rubra n. syn., Philippines B. yunanensis Qin & Zhang, 2010 Ch...

4.3. (i) Since HomA(A (I),M) ∼= M (I) for a set I and ⊕ is exact, it is clear that HomA(A (I),−) is exact, i.e. A(I) is projective. (ii) “Only if” part: Let A(P ) = ⊕ p∈P Ap be the free A-module indexed by P and ψ : A (P ) → p be the A-homomorphism such that ψ(1p) = p. Then ψ is surjective. If P is projective, then ψ has a section, i.e. an A-homomorphism φ : P → A(P ) such that ψ ◦ φ = idP . Th...

Objectives: Eβ-thalassemia, the most serious form of HbE syndromes, may develop pre-diabetes (PD) and diabetes mellitus (DM), together constituting abnormal glucose homeostasis (AGH) as an endocrinopathy. This study aims to assess AGH prevalence pathogenesis in this thalassemia subtype. Material Methods: A cross-sectional was conducted at a tertiary care hospital from February 2017 December 201...

Use of antioxidant components is a new approach for improvement of insulin resistance (IR) as a main feature of type 2 diabetes and its complications. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of broccoli sprouts powder (BSP) containing high concentration of sulphoraphane on IR in type 2 diabetic patients. Eighty-one patients were randomly assigned to receive 10 g/d BSP (A, n = 27), ...

BACKGROUND Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors have been shown to reduce body weight. However, little is known about whether a reduction in body weight affects glycemic and non-glycemic parameters. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the link between the changes in body weight and those in metabolic parameters in drug-naïve subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activate Receptors (PPARs) are transcription factors belonging to the nuclear receptor superfamily. The three PPARs (alpha, beta/delta, and gamma) are distributed differently in the different organs. PPARalpha is most common in the liver, but also found in kidney, gut, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, while PPARbeta/delta, is fairly ubiquitous; it may be found in body...