title: Resistance to diabetes-promoting lifestyle factors -- what is the mechanism?
abstract: Not all people exposed to diabetes-promoting lifestyle factors progress to overt type 2 diabetes. The emerging concept of hormesis provides an explanation for the resistance to metabolic stress. Hormesis requires limited stress or damage which elicits an adaptive repair and protective response which renders the organism resistant to further metabolic stress.
authors: Immunobiology Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, D-4001 Düsseldorf, Germany. hubert.kolb@uni-duesseldorf.de
authors: Hubert
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authors: Kolb
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D059165:Hormesis / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000276:immunology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013312:Stress, Physiological
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose