Research Articles
How Common Immunosuppressants Can Trigger Diabetes
Discover how immunosuppressive drugs like cyclosporine A and tacrolimus interfere with GLUT4 glucose transporters, leading to diabetes in transplant patients.
Nature's Key to Unlocking Blood Sugar: The Puerarin Story
Explore how puerarin from Kudzu root shows promising glucose-lowering effects in diabetic mice research and its potential for diabetes treatment.
The Brain: The Unexpected Conductor of Our Blood Sugar
Discover how the brain acts as the master regulator of blood glucose through GLP-1 hormone signaling and cerebral glucose detection mechanisms.
The Hidden Link Between Blood Cells and Diabetes in Children
Discover how mean platelet volume (MPV) from routine blood tests provides crucial insights into glucose control and complication risks in children with type 1 diabetes.
The Sugar Detectives: How Yeast Cells Sense and Respond to Glucose
Discover how Saccharomyces cerevisiae uses the Snf3-HXT6 pathway to sense glucose and regulate its metabolism through an elegant cellular communication system.
The Starving Brain: How Diabetes Silences the Body's Glucose Highway to the Mind
Exploring the paradox of high blood sugar but starving brains in type 2 diabetes and the groundbreaking research on reduced glucose transport to the brain.
The Dance of Molecules: How a Simple Sugar Controls a Key Cancer Enzyme
Discover how glucose regulates PKM2 enzyme via fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, impacting cancer metabolism and cellular energy production.
The Sweet Paradox: How a Modified Sugar Molecule Could Revolutionize Diabetes Treatment
Discover how 2-deoxy-D-glucose tetraacetate stimulates hormonal secretion in the pancreas and its potential for diabetes treatment.
The Sweet Side of Hormones: How Glucose Controls Prolactin Secretion
Discover how glucose directly regulates prolactin secretion in this engaging exploration of metabolic-hormonal interactions.
Glucose and Insulin: Restoring Metabolic Dance in Diabetic Patients
Exploring revolutionary advances in understanding and treating glucose-insulin regulation abnormalities in diabetes.