Title : [Glucosamine concentration in serum of old persons with hyperinsulinemia and normal insulin levels].

Pub. Date : 2003 May

PMID : 14768176






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1 Increased glucose metabolism through the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway has been shown to mediate many of adverse effects i.e. desensitisation of glucose transport in tissues, an inhibition of glycolysis and glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscles, an impairment of insulin secretion in pancreatic islet cells, arteriosclerosis and nephropathy by stimulation of growth factor TGF-alpha and TGF-beta 1 promoters expression. Hexosamines transforming growth factor beta 1 Homo sapiens