Endocrine Abstracts

Insulin resistance (IR) is a condition where beta cells are producing insulin, sometimes in large amounts, but the peripheral targets develop an inadequate response to the hormone. Classically insulin resistance has been associated with pathologic conditions. However, there is also physiological IR, associated with the last period of pregnancy and in different moments of the development. We have previously characterised a period of physiological IR, around the ablactation peri...