Browsing by Subject "glucose"

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Acute cardiometabolic responses facilitating a state of chronic hyperglycemia and renal impairment: the SABPA study

Joosten, Liezl (Wolters Kluwer, 2014)

"Background: Augmented α-adrenergic response patterns are associated with vascular risk in Africans. The aims of this study were 1) to assess ethnic differences between glucose and cardiovascular responses during acute ...
Associations of cholesterol and glucose with cardiovascular dysfunction in black Africans: the SABPA study

Lammertyn, Leandi; Schutte, Rudolph; Schutte, Aletta E.; Huisman, Hugo W.; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Fourie, Carla M.T.; Malan, Leoné (Informa healthcare, 2011)

The aim was to determine whether blood glucose or cholesterol is the more prominent contributor to cardiovascular dysfunction in 101 African men and 99 African women. We measured ambulatory daytime blood pressure (BP), ...
Influence of partial and complete glutamine-and glucose deprivation of breast-and cervical tumorigenic cell lines

Visagie, Michelle Helen; Liebenberg, Leon; Mathews, Edward Henry; Mathews, George Edward; Mqoco, Thandi Vuyelwa (BioMed Central, 2015)

Background: Due to their high proliferative requirements, tumorigenic cells possess altered metabolic systems whereby cells utilize higher quantities of glutamine and glucose. These altered metabolic requirements make it ...