Physical activity and type 2 diabetes
Subtitle: therapeutic effects and mechanisms of action
By: John A. Hawley, Juleen R. Zierath, editors.
Contributors: Hawley, John A.; Zierath, Juleen R.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780736064798
Subjects: Diabetes -- Exercise therapy; Insulin resistance -- Exercise therapy; Diabetes -- Prevention; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- prevention & control; Exercise; Insulin Resistance -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The increasing burden of type 2 diabetes: magnitude, causes, and implications of the epidemic / Edward W. Gregg and Andrea K. Kriska; title: Waging war on type 2 diabetes: primary prevention through exercise biology / Frank W. Booth, Manu V. Chakravarthy, and Matthew J. Laye; title: Fatty acid uptake and insulin resistance / Arend Bonen ... [et al.]; title: Lipid metabolism and insulin signaling / Jason R. Berggren, Leslie A. Consitt, and Joseph A. Houmard; title: Metabolic inflexibility and insulin resistance / Bret Goodpaster and David E. Kelley; title: Nutrient sensor links obesity with diabetes risk / Sarah Crunkhorn and Mary Elizabeth Patti; title: Inflammation-induced insulin resistance in obesity: when immunity impacts on metabolic control / Phillip James White and André Marette; title: Transcription factors regulating exercise adaptation / David Kitz Krämer and Anna Krook; title: Exercise and calorie restriction use different mechanisms to improve insulin sensitivity / Gregory D. Cartee; title: Mitochondrial oxidative capacity and insulin resistance / Kevin R. Short; title: Effects of acute exercise and exercise training on insulin action in skeletal muscle / Erik A. Richter and Jürgen F.P. Wojtaszewski; title: Resistance exercise training and the management of diabetes / Jürgen F.P Wojtaszewski, Henriette Pilegaard, and Flemming Dela; title: AMPK: the master switch for type 2 diabetes? / W.W. Winder and D.M Thomson; title: Protein kinase C and insulin resistance / Carsten Schmitz-Peiffer; title: Evidence for the prescription of exercise as a therapy for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes / Sarah J. Lessard and John A. Hawley.