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- Title
β-Cell Glucose Toxicity, Lipotoxicity, and Chronic Oxidative Stress in Type 2 Diabetes.
- Authors
Robertson, R. Paul; Harmon, Jamie; Tran, Phuong Oanh T.; Poitout, Vincent
- Abstract
The relentless decline in β-cell function frequently observed in type 2 diabetic patients, despite optimal drug management, has variously been attributed to glucose toxicity and lipotoxicity. The former theory posits hyperglycemia, an outcome of the disease, as a secondary force that further damages β-cells. The latter theory suggests that the often-associated defect of hy- perlipidemia is a primary cause of β-cell dysfunction. We review evidence that patients with type 2 diabetes continually undergo oxidative stress, that elevated glucose concentrations increase levels of reactive oxygen species in β-cells, that islets have intrinsically low antioxidant enzyme defenses, that antioxidant drugs and overexpression of antioxidant enzymes protect β-cells from glucose toxicity, and that lipotoxicity, to the extent it can be attributable to hyperlipidemia, occurs only in the context of preexisting hyperglycemia, whereas glucose toxicity can occur in the absence of hyperlipid- emia. Diabetes 53 (Suppl. 1):S119-S124, 2004
- Publication
Diabetes, 2004, Vol 53, pS119
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2337/diabetes.53.2007.S119