Background Although cross-sectional studies have shown that leukocyte is linked with
metabolic syndrome (MetS), few longitudinal or cohort studies have been used to confirm …

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most prevalent and severe complications of
diabetes mellitus (DM) and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We aimed …

There is limited evidence from epidemiological studies for the inflammatory or anti-
inflammatory properties of fatty acids in blood cell membranes. Therefore, this study …

Oleic (OA) and linoleic (LA) fatty acids may be important regulators of Slc2a4 gene (GLUT4
protein) in skeletal muscle, thus participating in insulin resistance. We investigated the effect …

Background There are only few data relating the metabolic consequences of feeding diets
very low in n-3 fatty acids. This experiment carried out in mice aims at studying the impact of …

Background Lipid metabolism plays important roles in the whole process of pregnancy.
Previous studies have demonstrated abnormalities of lipid metabolism in the placentas of …

A importância da terapia nutricional no tratamento do diabetes melito tem sido enfatizada
desde os primórdios de seu conhecimento, quando era a única intervenção efetiva. No …

Background: We previously established that male Swiss mice (Mus musculus) receiving a
high-fat diet (HFD) during 8 weeks exhibit similar caloric ingestion and body weight (grams) …

Results: Obesity modified the associations of linoleic acid (P int= 0.01), dihomo-γ-linolenic
(P int= 0.07) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)(P int= 0.04) with sICAM-1 concentrations; in …

Recently, soluble CD36 (sCD36) levels were reported to be elevated in type 2 diabetes, and
to be tightly correlated with insulin resistance. Our aim was to obtain further insight into the …