Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a group of conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), arterial hypertension (AHT), and hypercholesterolaemia, among others. In Mexico, the MS presents a high rate of morbidity and mortality, mainly related to cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays there is not a specific drug for the treatment...
Esta investigación se centra en el estudio de las propiedades antiinflamatorias e hipolipemiantes de los fructooligosacáridos (FOS) presentes en las raíces de Psacalium decompositum (Gray) H.E. Rob. & Brett (Asteraceae), conocido comúnmente como "matarique", planta medicinal usada en México para el tratamiento empírico de la diabetes. En la actualidad, la...
Estudios previos en homogenado de aorta de un modelo de síndrome metabólico (SM) inducido por alto consumo de sacarosa, mostraron marcadores de estrés oxidante aumentados, lo mismo que la actividad de la NADPH oxidasa. Además, en anillos de aorta aislados de animales con SM observó mayor constricción y menor relajación...
In the last decade it has been demonstrated that obesity entails adipose tissue immunophenotypic and systemic alterations, which are caused by the excessive and improper activation of the immune system. On that basis, a lowintensity chronic inflammatory process has been identified in the case of obesity as playing an important...
Acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase and paraoxonase - 1 are glycoproteins that besides regulating the neuromuscular cholinergic system and detoxify the body its activities are risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome (MS). The objective was to evaluate the participation of nicotinamide (NAM) on the activity and glycosylation pattern of circulating esterases in a...