Lecture 24

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What are symptoms of diabetes?
"thirst (polydispsia), frequent urination (polyuria)"
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What is diabetes insipidus?= = Deficiency in vasopressin
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How can ADH deficiency occur?
Problem with secretion in hypothalamus (eg. tumour compressing neuron) or with V2 receptor in kidney
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What causes diabetes mellitus?
Hyperglycaemia
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What is the effect of hyperglycaemia on the tissues?= =Dehydration
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What does the body do with all the fluid absorbed from the tissues?
Excretes in urine (polyuria)
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What happens with excess glucose in blood?
"Excreted, as once glucose transporters are saturated additional glucose cannot be reabsorbed"
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What test can signify diabetes mellitus?
"Glucosuria, blurred vision"
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What can hyperglycaemia increase the risk of?
"CV disease, renal failure, neuropathy, blindness, infections"
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Where is insulin produced?
Beta cells in islets of langehans in pancrease
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What does insulin do?
Stores glucose in liver as glycogen
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What is glucose used for?
Energy production
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What happens to insulin vs glucagon in hypoglycaemia?
"Decreased insulin, increased glucagon"
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What is Type I diabetes mellitus?
Dysfunction in insulin production
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What is Type II diabetes mellitus?
Dysfunction in insulin receptor pathway
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What happens to glycogen in diabetes mellitus type I?
"Decreased insulin, increased glucagon, decreased glycogen, hyperglycaemiea"
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What causes dysfunction of insulin receptor pathways in DMT2?
"Genetic predisposition, FFAs"
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What transporters facilitate glucose uptake?
"GLUT1, GLUT4"
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What activates GLUT4 receptors?
Insulin in peripheral cells such as skeletal muscle
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What does the body do to obtain energy if glucose is not available?
Anaerobic respiration
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What is the negative effect of chronic anaerobic respiration?
"Increase in ketone bodies => ketoacidosis of the blood, weight loss"
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What are likely causes of T1 DM?
Autoimmune disease
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What are the factors of T1 DM autoimmune diseases?
"Environmental triggers, genetic predisposition"
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What destroys beta cells in the islets of Langerhan?
Inflammatory lymphocytes
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What could cause insulitis (lymphocytic infliltration of islets of Langerhan?
"Viral infection, environmental triggers"
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What may be genetic factors of T1 DM?
"Abnormal expression of MHC antigens (HLADR3, HLADR4)"
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How do we know T2 DM is genetically predisposed?
Monozygotic twins both susceptible
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What are major causes of T2 DM?
"Lack of exercise, excess food consumption"
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How do lifestyle factors cause T2 DM?
Increased glucose > increased FFAs > hypertrophy of adipocytes > increased release of adipokines > FFA acumulation in skeletal muscle and liver
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What else do adipokines do?
"Inflammatory ""go"" signals"
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What do FFAs and inflammation cause?
Dysfunction of intracellular signalling (eg. GLUT4 insertion)
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How can T2 DM progress to chronic dysfunction?
Hyperinsulinaemia => beta cell dysfunciton or insulin resistance
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What is the difference between T1 DM and chronic T2 DM insulin production/resistance?
T2 DM not autoimmune mediated but inflammatory signals from adipocytes
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What is the effect of chronic hyperglycaemia on proteins?
Glucose binds to amino acids => Advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs)
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What does glycation of proteins result in?
"Damage to protein structure => blood vessel, nerve, connective tissue damage/change"
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What proteins have impaired function as a result of glycation?
"Basement membrane, myelin, collagen"
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How does hyperdlycaemia cause osmotic swelling and cell damage?
High glucose > aldose reductase conversion of glucose into sorbitol > sorbitol accumlulation creates dysfunction to Na/K ATPase
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How does excess food intake activate protein kinase c?
Increased glucose and FFAs > increased DAG > activation of PKC
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What does activation of PKC do?
"Increases permeability of blood vessels, proliferation of endothelial and smooth muscle cells, ECM production, cytokine production, glycation"
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What is the result of the toxic effect of glucose?
"Angiopathy, nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy"
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How does hyperglycaemia cause macro angiopathy?= =Increase in atherosclerosis
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How does hyperglycaemia cause atherosclerosis?
"Activation of PKC, glycation, inflammation, plasminogen inhibitor => inhibition of fibrinolysis"
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How does hyperglycaemia cause nephropathy and retinopathy?
Damage to small blood bessels in kidney and retina
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What is scarring in glomeric blood vessels called?
Glomerusclerosis
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What is a complication of retinal angiopathy?
"Angiogenesis produces leaky blood vessels causing increaed exudate, lipid deposition and scarring"
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What damages schwann cells?
"Sorbitol, glycation, PKC activation"
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How does DM increase infection?
"Decreased leukocyte function, decreased cytokine secretion of macrophages, increased ketoacidosis => fungal infection susceptibility"