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Hotamisligil GS. This paper reviews the recent advances concerning the role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and its complications. The ER is the site where all the proteins are formed. Under conditions...

Erion DM, Shulman GI. This review focuses on the effect of increases in intracellular diacylglycerol content on hepatic and skeletal muscle insulin resistance associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Overnutrition is the most common cause for...

McLaughlin TM, Liu T, Yee G, Abbasi F, Lamendola C, Reaven GM, Tsao P, Cushman SW, Sherman A. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of pioglitazone treatment on adipogenesis and insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese, nondiabetic...

Ford ES, Zhao G, Li C. The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the magnitude of the relative risk (RR) for cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) from prospective...

Cook JR, Semple RK. This review discusses the association between adiponectin and insulin resistance. It is now well recognized that adiponectin is an insulin-sensitizing adipokine. In fact, studies on adiponectin knockout mice models reported that...