Background: To investigate the association between serum lipoprotein levels and insulin resistance in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Methods: Twenty-five PCOS patients and twentyfive age-matched controls were enrolled in the study. Serum levels of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), fasting glucose (FBG), fasting insulin (FINS), serum triglycerides (TG)...

Objective(s): Visfatin and vaspin are secreted by adipose tissue and play key roles in glucose homeostasis and subsequently are potential targets for diabetes treatment. Resveratrol (RVS) corrects insulin secretion and improves insulin sensitivity. We investigated the RVS effects on serum antioxidants, insulin and glucose levels, also visfatin and vaspin genes expression in adipose tissue of st...

vaspin as a novel adipokine has insulin-sensitizing effects, which may be associated with decreased blood glucose concentration. in this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of resistance exercise training on plasma vaspin concentrations and its relation to plasma levels of insulin and glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes (t2d). in a quasi-experimental study, 18 male patients with t2d...

Background: NAFLD is a clinical spectrum ranging from steatosis (fatty infiltration) to with inflammation, necrosis, fibrosis and cirrhosis resembling alcoholic hepatitis in the absence of abuse. The aim this work was determine early renal functional alterations overweight / obese children adolescents NAFLD, as assessed by estimated glomerular filtration rate using cystatin C, evaluate its rela...

Human serum can be depleted of insulin and growth hormone by treatment with dextran-coated charcoal or by dialysis, or both. Inclusion of such hormone-depleted serum in the standard curve of a double-antibody radioimmunoassay for immunoreactive insulin more nearly mimics the conditions under which an unknown human serum sample is assayed. Compared to the usual standard curve in which serum albu...

Researchers add serum to a classical medium at concentrations of 5 to 10% (v/v) to grow cellsin-vitro culture media. Unfortunately, serum is a poorly defined culture medium componentas its composition can vary considerably while serum-free cell culture media are an excellentalternative to standard serum-containing media and offer several major advantages. Advantagesof us...

Background and objective: Type two diabetes is known as insulin-independent mellitus due to body’s inability respond insulin can be managed by lifestyle change hypoglycemic tablets. This study aimed compare serum levels of calcitonin, calcium, phosphate between type diabetic patients controls. Methods: The cross-sectional included 50 who have already been diagnosed with control subjects without...

    Type 2 diabetes is a well-known endocrine and metabolic disorder which has reached epidemic proportions worldwide and represents a serious public health concern. Hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia are two major abnormalities which are major cardiovascular risk factors. Berberine is a major alkaloid in Berberis vulgaris fruit extract (BVFE) which have important role in regulation of serum glucos...

Possessing putative hypolipidemic effects, Teucrium polium (TP) have been traditionally used as a medicinal plant in Iran. The aim of the present study was to investigate this effect on the sucrose-induced insulin resistance male rat model. Thirty Wistar male rats weighting 180 ± 20 g were divided into five groups of six each. Four groups were given sucrose 50% in drinking water for 10 weeks. I...