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  • Molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance and associated diseases
    Mlinar, Barbara, 1974- ...
    Insulin resistance is a state in which higher than normal concentrations of insulin are required for normal response. The most common underlying cause is central obesity, although primary insulin ... resistance in normal-weight individuals is also possible. Excess abdominal adipose tissue has been shown to release increased amounts of free fatty acids which directly affect insulinsignalling, diminish glucose uptake in muscle, drive exaggerated triglyceride synthesis and induce gluconeogenesis in the liver. Other factors presumed to play the role in insulin resistance are tumour necrosis factor Ž, adiponectin, leptin, IL-6 and some other adipokines. Hyperinsulinaemia which accompanies insulin resistance may be implicated in the development of many pathological states, such as hypertension and hyperandrogenaemia. Insulin resistance underlies metabolic syndrome and is further associated with polycystic ovary syndrome and lipodystrophies. When Ž-cells fail to secrete the excess insulin needed, diabetes mellitus type 2 emerges, which is, besidescoronary heart disease, the main complication of insulin resistance andassociated diseases
    Vir: Clinica chimica acta. - ISSN 0009-8981 (Vol. 375, no. 1-2, 2007, str. 20-35)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2007
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1996145

vir: Clinica chimica acta. - ISSN 0009-8981 (Vol. 375, no. 1-2, 2007, str. 20-35)

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