Insulin uptake and degradation is a complex and not yet completely understood process
involving not only insulin sensitive tissues. The most important degradative system is insulin …

Obesity is a frequent cause of insulin resistance and poses a major risk for diabetes.
Abnormal fat deposition within skeletal muscle has been identified as a mechanism of obesity-…

Inhibitors of HMG‐CoA reductase are new safe and effective cholesterol‐lowering agents.
Elevation of alanine‐amino transferase (ALT) and aspartate‐amino transferase (AST) has …

Drug-induced liver diseases (DILD) are clinico-pathologic patterns of liver injury caused by
drugs or other foreign compounds. Steatohepatitis is a rare form of DILD, and drugs account …

Levothyroxine therapy is used in case of deficiency of the thyroid hormones in the human
organism. Many conditions, either physiological or paraphysiological or clearly pathological, …

Background & Aims: The etiology of cholesterol gallstones is multifactorial, with interactions
of genes and the environment. The hypothesis that aborigine cholesterol lithogenic genes …

Objective: Aim of the present study is to evaluate the effects of L-carnitine on insulin-mediated
glucose uptake and oxidation in type II diabetic patients and compare the results with …

A close relationship between elevated plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels and insulin resistance
is commonly reported in obese subjects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate …

Objective Psychophysical methods in patients with diabetes mellitus reveal deficits of central
or foveal vision. Our aim was to evaluate the contrast-sensitivity thresholds in 24 insulin-…

Objective: To examine the muscular uncoupling protein expression 2 (UCP2) and UCP3
gene expression in morbid obese subjects before and after bariatric surgery [bilio‐pancreatic …