Targeting Inflammation Through a Physical Active Lifestyle and Pharmaceuticals for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Knudsen, Sine Haugaard ^a   Pedersen, Bente Klarlund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anti inflammation; Drugs; Exercise; Myokines; Physical training

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CANAKINUMAB; ETANERCEPT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GEVOKIZUMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LY 2189102; METFORMIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PIOGLITAZONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RESVERATROL; SALSALATE; SIMVASTATIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; TOCILIZUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; MYOKININ; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; IMMUNOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIFE STYLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPEPTIDES;

EID: 84941636864     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-015-0642-1     Document Type: Review

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