Diabetes mellitus and pregnancy association in human species is the cause of maternal and embryonic death, growth delay, apparition of neonatal risk factors and teratogenesis. In animal models, this could be reproduced, altough different authors report distinct and often contradictorious results. In this work, first is described the efforts for...
Cecropia obtusifolia is used all over México for type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) control. The hypoglycemic effect of different extracts obtained from this species has been reported in healthy and alloxan treated animals and it is not insulin like. Such biological activity has been attributed to flavonoid compounds, chlorogenic acid...
Los mecanismos fisiológicos y bioquímicos que regulan el funcionamiento coordinado de la circulación sanguínea y de la pared vascular se encuentran alterados en los vasos sanguíneos grandes y pequeños en la diabetes mellitus (DM). Las alteraciones vasculares observadas en los pacientes diabéticos dan lugar a la enfermedad vascular periférica que,...
This work was designed to study an alternative treatment of diabetes mellitus by using a transplant of hybrid cells obtained by the electrofusion of pancreatic islet cells from a healthy donor with dermic cells from a diabetic recipient. The hybrid cells could keep the capacity of insulin production, its regulation,...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease, and a chronic degenerative inflammatory condition characterized by hyperglycemia due to a deficiency in the secretion and/or insulin action that leads to irreversible development of vascular complications. The DM is classified into four categories being the most important type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1),...
La sepsis es la principal causa de morbilidad y mortalidad de los pacientes con fistulas enterocutáneas (FEC). A pesar de que la inmunonutrición preoperatoria muestra menor incidencia de complicaciones infecciosas en pacientes quirúrgicos con cáncer gastrointestinal, no se han realizado estudios de la misma en pacientes con FEC. El objetivo...