The Role of Bioactive Compounds in Blood Glucose Control
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 July 2024 | Viewed by 2749
Special Issue Editor
Interests: glucose homeostasis; food supplement; abscisic acid; molecular mechanisms of signal transduction; insulin resistance; diabetes and related metabolic syndrome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The control of glucose homeostasis represents the primary goal for the prevention of prediabetes, insulin resistance, and diabetes. Diabetes is a metabolic disease that is growing in incidence, and its control involves numerous challenges; in particular, type 2 diabetes mellitus is the most prevalent form, affecting more than 90% of total diabetes subjects, and is characterized by decreased β-cell insulin secretion and/or insulin resistance, resulting in chronic hyperglycemia. The application of therapeutic strategies aiming to contrast hyperglycemia is essential; albeit many of the measures are based on improving life habits and pharmacological treatment, these interventions are often difficult to support due to several serious side-effects and fail to significantly alter the course of diabetic complications. Therefore, the development of novel strategies is necessary, and new bioactive compounds, present in food or released from human cells, able to improve glycemic control, stimulating glucose uptake, metabolism, and increasing insulin sensitivity, have recently attracted considerable interest.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles, short communications, and reviews on new bioactive compounds as promising and innovative molecules able to contribute to the management of glucose homeostasis, including their molecular mechanisms in diabetes and all related metabolic syndromes.
Dr. Sturla Laura
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive molecules
- glycemia control
- diabetes
- insulin sensitivity
- human health
- human diet
- molecular mechanisms
- biological activity
