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SUBMITTER: Dedoussis GV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1892523 | biostudies-literature | 2007
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dedoussis George V Z GV Kaliora Andriana C AC Panagiotakos Demosthenes B DB
The review of diabetic studies : RDS 20070510 1
Diabetes mellitus is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of death and disability. While insulin insensitivity is an early phenomenon partly related to obesity, pancreatic beta-cell function declines gradually over time even before the onset of clinical hyperglycemia. Several mechanisms have been proposed to be responsible for insulin resistance, including increased non-esterified fatty acids, inflammatory cytokines, adipokines, and mitochondrial dysfunction, as well as glucotoxicity, ...[more]