Endocrine Abstracts

Diabetes remains a major public health burden worldwide. The causes of Diabetes have not been fully understood and there is to date no cure for Diabetes. Accumulating evidence, however, supports the notion that interplay between HC-gp39 and adipocytes could be fundamental in understanding the pathobiology of type 2 Diabetes and help to develop novel therapeutic strategies to arrest metabolic dysfunction. HC-gp39 is an inflammation-associated chitinase-like protein, found in ve...