title: [Role of muscle and fat tissue in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes].
abstract: In the last years type 2 diabetes has reached almost epidemic proportions. More than 170 million individuals are affected worldwide, about 6 million in Germany. In the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance in liver, fat and muscle as well as the inability of the pancreatic beta-cell to fully compensate for this insulin resistance are the central pathophysiological events. Both genetic and environmental factors, such as lack of physical exercise and hypercaloric nutrition play a major role in this process, although the precise mechanisms for type 2 diabetes development remain largely unknown. In the characterization of the role of liver, adipose tissue and skeletal muscle in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, tissue specific knockout mouse models have challenged our concepts of glucose homeostasis.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. bluma@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blüher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stumvoll
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism*; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose