objective: adipocyte and skeletal muscle are important tissues which contribute the development and progression of metabolic disorder. insulin has a major regulatory function on glucose metabolism in these tissues by redistributing glucose transporter (glut4) from intracellular vesicles to the cell surface. today, due to the side effects of chemical medications attendance to herbal medicines is...

abstract alzheimer’s disease (ad) is the most common cause of dementia in elderly people. the prevalence of alzheimer diseases is increasing in the world due to population aging. metabolic disease such as diabetes and obesity play important role in alzheimer disease. hyperglycemia can play important role in brain damage. it causes cognitive impairments, functional and structural alterations in ...

abstract objective: previous studies have indicated the hyperglycemia-induce cell death in various tissues such as brain, kidneys, liver and especially in the testis. recent studies have reported that diabetes can trigger male infertility. in this study we report the histological analysis of the testis tissue after diabetes type 1 induction in wistar rats. materials and methods: at various time...

background: diabetes is a multi factor disease of metabolic disorders, increasing of blood glucose or hyperglycemia. it can cause by secretion abnormality, insulin function or both. sweet diabetic is most common disease and about 150* 1 05 people are suffered from its thought the world. it is predicted that it will reach up to 300*l06 till 2045 . methods: a descriptive study using logical order...

vitamin d and diabetes mellitus

it has previously been demonstrated that circulating levels of leptin show ethnic differences when controlled for the confounding influence of adiposity. this study examined leptin levels in non-obese and obese subjects with type 2 diabetes of african versus caucasian origin. materials and methods non-obese and obese subjects with type 2 diabetes of either african origin living in dar es salaam...

introduction: zinc is an essential rare element that plays an important role in synaptic plasticity and modulation of the activity of central nervous system and is involved in learning and memory. increasing zinc intake may protect against conditions associated with zinc deficiency, such as diabetes. some studies have revealed that zinc deficiency in diabetic subjects is due to hogher excretion...

conclusions the lh is a common problem in insulin-treated jordanian patients with t2dm. more efforts are needed to educate patients and health workers on simple interventions such as using shorter needles and frequent rotation of the insulin injection sites to avoid lh and improve glycemic control. results the overall prevalence of lh was 37.3% (27.4% grade 1, 9.7% grade 2, and 0.2% grade 3). t...

background : pancreas as the insulin-producing gland is subjected to destruction and change in the diabetes-producing process. realtime sonography can assess the gland in 95% of cases and its accuracy in diagnosis of pancreatic disease matches that of ct-scan. the purpose of this study was to evaluate pancreatic diameter and echogenicity by sonography and to examine the correlation of these two...