Hypolipidemic, antiobesity, and hypoglycemic-hypoinsulinemic effects of beta,beta'-methyl-substituted hexadecanedioic acid in sand rats.

abstract：:The transplantation of human fetal pancreas has been suggested as a means of treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes in man. We have obtained human fetal pancreata during the second trimester of pregnancy and transplanted 1-mm3 explants subcutaneously (s.c.) into both diabetic and nondiabetic nude mice, some of the ti...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Tuch BE,Ng AB,Jones A,Turtle JR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic β-cell ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) channels are composed of Kir6.2 and SUR1 subunits encoded by the KCNJ11 and ABCC8 genes, respectively. Although rare monogenic activating mutations in these genes cause overt neonatal diabetes, the common variants E23K (KCNJ11) and S1369A (ABCC8) form a tightly heritable h...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Fatehi M,Raja M,Carter C,Soliman D,Holt A,Light PE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired insulin secretion is a fundamental defect in type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genes regulating insulin secretion (SLC2A2 [encoding GLUT2], GCK, TCF1 [encoding HNF-1alpha], HNF4A, GIP, and GLP1R) are associated with the conversion f...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Laukkanen O,Lindström J,Eriksson J,Valle TT,Hämäläinen H,Ilanne-Parikka P,Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi S,Tuomilehto J,Uusitupa M,Laakso M,Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study.

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OKT3 has emerged as a highly effective antirejection therapy, but its efficacy in pancreas transplantation remains to be determined. During a 26-mo period, 46 vascularized pancreas transplants were performed with pancreaticoduodenocystostomy. Twenty-one patients (45.7%) were treated with OKT3. Indications for OKT3 use...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Stratta RJ,Sollinger HW,D'Alessandro AM,Pirsch JD,Kalayoglu M,Belzer FO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell death-inducing DFFA (DNA fragmentation factor-alpha)-like effector A (CIDEA) gene is implicated as an important regulator of body weight in mice and humans and is therefore a candidate gene for human obesity. Here, we characterize common CIDEA gene polymorphisms and investigate them for association with obesi...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Dahlman I,Kaaman M,Jiao H,Kere J,Laakso M,Arner P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) reportedly triggers a variety of proinflammatory responses. However, our previous work revealed that RAGE-binding AGEs free of endotoxin were incapable of inducing vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) or tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Valencia JV,Mone M,Zhang J,Weetall M,Buxton FP,Hughes TE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) constitute a major effector population in pancreatic islets from patients suffering from type 1 diabetes (T1D) and thus represent attractive targets for intervention. Some studies have suggested that blocking the interaction between the chemokine CXCL10 and its receptor CXCR3 on activate...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Coppieters KT,Amirian N,Pagni PP,Baca Jones C,Wiberg A,Lasch S,Hintermann E,Christen U,von Herrath MG

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On its own, glucose is a major factor for proliferation of pancreatic beta-cells and is also an essential prerequisite for IGF-I and growth hormone-induced growth of these cells. p8 was originally identified as an emergency gene product upregulated in pancreatic acinar cells in response to acute pancreatitis. p8 was f...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Päth G,Opel A,Knoll A,Seufert J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Glucagon responses to hypoglycemia from islets transplanted in the liver are defective. To determine whether this defect is related to intrahepatic glycogen, islets from inbred Lewis rats were transplanted into the hepatic sinus (H group), peritoneal cavity (P group), omentum (O group), and kidney capsule (K ...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Zhou H,Zhang T,Bogdani M,Oseid E,Parazzoli S,Vantyghem MC,Harmon J,Slucca M,Robertson RP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare mutations in the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene cause severe early-onset childhood obesity. However, it is unknown whether common variants in POMC are responsible for variation in body weight or fat distribution within the commonly observed range in the population. We tested for association between three polymor...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Baker M,Gaukrodger N,Mayosi BM,Imrie H,Farrall M,Watkins H,Connell JM,Avery PJ,Keavney B

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decline of leptin (Ob protein) concentrations during fasting is implicated as a signal for increasing the expression of the orexigenic peptide neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the hypothalamus. To test the hypothesis that the effects of food intake on arcuate nucleus NPY activation are mediated by leptin, we performed simu...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Baskin DG,Breininger JF,Schwartz MW

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both insulin resistance and decreased insulin secretion have been hypothesized to be precursors of non-insulin-dependent diabetes. An elevated proinsulin concentration reflects abnormal proinsulin processing and could indicate abnormal insulin secretion. We examined fasting insulin (measured by a radioimmunoassay that...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Haffner SM,Stern MP,Miettinen H,Gingerich R,Bowsher RR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and its partner insulin are dually linked in both their secretion from islet cells and their action in the liver. Glucagon signaling increases hepatic glucose output, and hyperglucagonemia is partly responsible for the hyperglycemia in diabetes, making glucagon an attractive target for therapeutic interventio...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Dean ED

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate and RR variation (the standard deviation of the mean RR interval for a 5-min period) were evaluated as measurements of cardiac parasympathetic nervous system activity in fasting supine diabetic (N = 22) and comparable age normal (N = 22) subjects. The rate of breathing did not effect heart rate, but was inv...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Pfeifer MA,Cook D,Brodsky J,Tice D,Reenan A,Swedine S,Halter JB,Porte D Jr

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats from four experimental treatment groups, including fed controls, 24- to 30-h fasted, dexamethasone-treated, and intraperitoneal glucose-treated, were used to assess the effects of these treatments on the immunohistochemically detectable islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) content in the pancreatic islets. Isolated p...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： O'Brien TD,Westermark P,Johnson KH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipocyte-secreted protein adiponectin is associated with insulin sensitivity in observational studies. We aimed to evaluate whether this relationship is causal using a Mendelian randomization approach. In a sample of Swedish men aged 71 years (n = 942) from the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM), ins...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Gao H,Fall T,van Dam RM,Flyvbjerg A,Zethelius B,Ingelsson E,Hägg S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anionic charge on the surface of the erythrocyte and the erythrocyte membrane content of sialic acid and acid glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) were evaluated in insulin-dependent diabetic patients who had albumin excretion rates less than 300 mg/24 h. In these subjects a statistically significant reduction of erythrocyte...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Gambaro G,Baggio B,Cicerello E,Mastrosimone S,Marzaro G,Borsatti A,Crepaldi G

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a common problem in Western society and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Energy homeostasis is regulated by a complex system involving both peripheral signals such as leptin and a number of orexigenic and anorectic neuropeptides. Obesity can result from dysregulation of the peripheral...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Bradley RL,Kokkotou EG,Maratos-Flier E,Cheatham B

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests that epigenetic profile changes occurring during fetal development in response to in utero environment variations could be one of the mechanisms involved in the early determinants of adult chronic diseases. In this study, we tested whether maternal glycemic status is associated with the adipo...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Bouchard L,Hivert MF,Guay SP,St-Pierre J,Perron P,Brisson D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma modulation is a new pharmacological approach that, based on selective receptor-cofactor interactions and target gene regulation, should result in potent insulin sensitization in the absence of PPARgamma-mediated adverse effects. Here, we characterize tw...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Schupp M,Clemenz M,Gineste R,Witt H,Janke J,Helleboid S,Hennuyer N,Ruiz P,Unger T,Staels B,Kintscher U

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genome-wide association studies have identified several variants within the MTNR1B locus that are associated with fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and type 2 diabetes. We refined the association signal by direct genotyping and examined for associations of the variant displaying the most independent effect on FPG ...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Sparsø T,Bonnefond A,Andersson E,Bouatia-Naji N,Holmkvist J,Wegner L,Grarup N,Gjesing AP,Banasik K,Cavalcanti-Proença C,Marchand M,Vaxillaire M,Charpentier G,Jarvelin MR,Tichet J,Balkau B,Marre M,Lévy-Marchal C,Faerch

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (Mecp2) cause neurological disorders with metabolic dysfunction; however, its role in adipose tissues remains unclear. Here, we report upregulated Mecp2 in white adipose tissues (WAT) of obese humans, as well as in obese mice and during in vitro adipogenesis. Normal chow-f...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Liu C,Wang J,Wei Y,Zhang W,Geng M,Yuan Y,Chen Y,Sun Y,Chen H,Zhang Y,Xiong M,Li Y,Zheng L,Huang K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic and duodenal homeobox factor-1 (PDX-1), also known as IDX-1/STF-1/IPF1, a homeodomain-containing transcription factor, plays a central role in regulating pancreatic development and insulin gene transcription. Furthermore, even in adults, PDX-1 is associated with islet neogenesis and differentiation of i...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Noguchi H,Kaneto H,Weir GC,Bonner-Weir S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic insulin can prevent diabetes in the BB rat. We evaluated its use to prevent adoptive transfer of diabetes by activated splenocytes. ConA-activated spleen cells from acutely diabetic BB rats were divided into two equal aliquots and injected intravenously in paired diabetes-prone BB rat littermates. At the ...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Bertrand S,De Paepe M,Vigeant C,Yale JF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of GLUTs in rat peripheral nerve was first studied at the mRNA level with Northern transfer analysis with cDNAs specific for GLUT1, GLUT2, GLUT3, and GLUT4. GLUT1 mRNA was the only GLUT mRNA detectable in rat sciatic nerve. In situ hybridization localized this mRNA to the perineurium and to some endo- and e...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Muona P,Sollberg S,Peltonen J,Uitto J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidic glucagon antagonists have been shown to lower blood glucose levels in diabetic models (1-3), but attempts to identify small molecular weight glucagon receptor-binding antagonists have met with little success. Skyrin, a fungal bisanthroquinone, exhibits functional glucagon antagonism by uncoupling the glucagon...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Parker JC,McPherson RK,Andrews KM,Levy CB,Dubins JS,Chin JE,Perry PV,Hulin B,Perry DA,Inagaki T,Dekker KA,Tachikawa K,Sugie Y,Treadway JL

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolbutamide (1 g/kg body wt) was administered to male rats for 3 days to determine the effects of this pretreatment on subsequent insulin biosynthesis and compartmental storage characteristics of freshly isolated islets. Islets were isolated 16 h after the last tolbutamide administration, at a time when fed plasma glu...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Gold G,Pou J,Gishizky ML,Landahl HD,Grodsky GM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TaqIB cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) gene polymorphism (B1B2) is a determinant of HDL cholesterol in nondiabetic populations. Remarkably, this gene effect appears to be modified by environmental factors. We evaluated the effect of this polymorphism on HDL cholesterol levels and on the lipoprotein respon...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Dullaart RP,Hoogenberg K,Riemens SC,Groener JE,van Tol A,Sluiter WJ,Stulp BK

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased susceptibility of LDL to oxidation has been shown to be associated with the presence of coronary heart disease and may account for the accelerated vascular disease seen in diabetes. The response of LDL to in vitro oxidative stress has been proposed as a measure of the predisposition of LDL to the in vivo sub...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Jenkins AJ,Klein RL,Chassereau CN,Hermayer KL,Lopes-Virella MF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syngeneic pancreatic islet grafts in diabetic NOD mice are infiltrated by mononuclear leukocytes, beta-cells are selectively destroyed, and autoimmune diabetes recurs. This model was used to identify islet graft-infiltrating mononuclear leukocytes associated with beta-cell destruction and diabetes recurrence. We compa...

journal_title：Diabetes

authors： Suarez-Pinzon W,Rajotte RV,Mosmann TR,Rabinovitch A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00