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SUBMITTER: Kodama K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4392898 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kodama Keiichi K Toda Kyoko K Morinaga Shojiroh S Yamada Satoru S Butte Atul J AJ
Diabetes 20141007 3
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a metabolic disease affecting >370 million people worldwide. It is characterized by obesity-induced insulin resistance, and growing evidence has indicated that this causative link between obesity and insulin resistance is associated with visceral adipose tissue inflammation. However, using anti-inflammatory drugs to treat insulin resistance and T2D is not a common practice. We recently applied a bioinformatics methodology to open public data and found that CD44 plays a c ...[more]