Type 1 diabetes mellitus as a disease of the β-cell (do not blame the immune system?)

BO Roep, S Thomaidou, R van Tienhoven… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is believed to result from destruction of the insulin-producing β-cells
in pancreatic islets that is mediated by autoimmune mechanisms. The classic view is that …

Relationship between oxidative stress, ER stress, and inflammation in type 2 diabetes: the battle continues

E Burgos-Morón, Z Abad-Jiménez… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia and insulin
resistance in which oxidative stress is thought to be a primary cause. Considering that …

Watch what you (self-) eat: autophagic mechanisms that modulate metabolism

V Lahiri, WD Hawkins, DJ Klionsky - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved lysosome-or vacuole-dependent catabolic
pathway in eukaryotes. Autophagy functions basally for cellular quality control and is …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of metformin on autophagy

G Lu, Z Wu, J Shang, Z Xie, C Chen - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Metformin is the first-line option for treating newly diagnosed diabetic patients and also
involved in other pharmacological actions, including antitumor effect, anti-aging effect …

Glucose variability: how does it work?

VV Klimontov, OV Saik, AI Korbut - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
A growing body of evidence points to the role of glucose variability (GV) in the development
of the microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes. In this review, we …

Partners in crime: beta-cells and autoimmune responses complicit in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis

E Toren, KLS Burnette, RR Banerjee… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by autoreactive T cell-
mediated destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells. Loss of beta-cells leads to …

[HTML][HTML] Deacetylation of Caveolin-1 by Sirt6 induces autophagy and retards high glucose-stimulated LDL transcytosis and atherosclerosis formation

Y Zhao, X Jia, X Yang, X Bai, Y Lu, L Zhu, W Cheng… - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Atherosclerosis (AS) is the basis of diabetic macrovascular complications. The
plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles transcytosis across endothelial cells (ECs) …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondria and T2D: role of autophagy, ER stress, and inflammasome

M Rocha, N Apostolova, R Diaz-Rua, J Muntane… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2020 - cell.com
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the main current threats to human health. Both T2D and its
numerous clinical complications are related to mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative …

Autophagy in health and disease: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic target

G Lu, Y Wang, Y Shi, Z Zhang, C Huang, W He… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionally conserved catabolic process in which
cytosolic contents, such as aggregated proteins, dysfunctional organelle, or invading …

[HTML][HTML] Mitophagy protects β cells from inflammatory damage in diabetes

V Sidarala, GL Pearson, VS Parekh, B Thompson… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Inflammatory damage contributes to β cell failure in type 1 and 2 diabetes (T1D and T2D,
respectively). Mitochondria are damaged by inflammatory signaling in β cells, resulting in …