Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: NK cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes critical to innate immunity. The purpose of this study is to find out the difference in NK cell activity between type 2 diabetes patients and controls, and to investigate the association between NK cell activity and glucose control.Methods: Forty-nine subjects were enrolled in this study, with 23 type 2 diabetes patients and 26 normal glucose tolerant controls. Anthropometric and biochemical parameters wer...

Background: Korean red ginseng (KRG) has been shown to improve glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in several human studies. However, human studies on the effects of KRG on diabetic complications are lacking. We performed this study to investigate the effects of KRG administration on glucose metabolism and chronic diabetic complications in type 2 diabetes patients.Methods: This study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 83 type ...

Purpose: This study investigated the exercise-induced changes in novel adipokines (visfatin, chemerin, and apelin) related to obesity and metabolism, and their correlations with the changes in the measures of obesity and glucose homeostasis after the 8-wk exercise intervention.Methods: Forty metabolically heathy obese young males were randomly assigned either to control (C, n=12) or exercise group (Ex, n=28). The subje...