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Diabetes and Chronic Inflammation – connecting the dots, Part Deux

September 13, 2012 / / 2 Comments

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In the FIRST POST of this two part series, I laid out some facts about Type 2 diabetes which results from insulin resistance, and indicated how non-esterified (‘Free’) Fatty Acids (FFAs) induce chronic inflammation via engagement of TLR4 and the NF-κB pathway, eventually leading to Insulin resistance – and yet, since FFA doesn’t bind TLR4, it’s not known how the twain meets. The elegant set of studies described in the Pal at al. paper in the July 29, 2012 issue of Nature Medicine [1] provides evidence for a mechanism hypothesized to be active in lipid-induced insulin resistance, i.e., one that can connect the dots.

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Diabetes and Chronic Inflammation – connecting the dots, Part Un

September 13, 2012 / / 4 Comments

Nature Medicine has recently featured studies dealing with obesity-related insulin resistance which leads to a type of diabetes, called Type 2 diabetes. Of these papers, one by Pal et al. (Nature Medicine, 18(8):1284, August 2012) highlights some specific aspects of the disease, including prospects for future therapeutics. I found it interesting – for various reasons* – enough to spur me to write about diabetes in the context of their observations. I shall make it a 2-part series; in the first post, I would talk a bit about diabetes in general, and follow it up with a review of the main findings of their elegant studies. (Full disclosure: I have parents and grandparents who are/were diabetic.)

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