Wednesday, December 16, 2015

A Correlative Relationship between Chronic Pain and Insulin Resistance in Zucker Fatty Rats: Role of Downregulation of Insulin Receptors

Epidemiological studies and meta-analyses report a strong relationship between chronic pain and abnormalities in glucose metabolism, but the exact relationship between chronic pain and insulin resistance in type-2-diabetes (T2D) remains unknown. Using a model of neuropathic thermal and tactile hypersensitivity induced by chronic constriction sciatic nerve injury (CCI) in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) and Zucker lean (ZL) littermates, we compared the recovery period of hypersensitivity and the progression of T2D and studied the possible involvement of insulin receptors (IR) in the comorbidity of these two conditions.

from The Journal of Pain http://ift.tt/1P9oEZV
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