Publications by authors named "Xingna Hu"

Objective: Obesity and insulin resistance carry a high risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes mellitus. A lot of evidence has tightly associated insulin resistance with chronic inflammation. Besides, it has been reported that the activation of amphiregulin epidermal growth factor receptor pathways is involved in chronic inflammation.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The kidneys have a high level of Netrin-1 expression, which protects against some acute and chronic kidney disorders. However, it is yet unknown how Netrin-1 affects renal proximal tubule cells in diabetic nephropathy (DN) under pathological circumstances. Research has shown that autophagy protects the kidneys in animal models of renal disease.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objectives: To explore pro-inflammatory cytokines status in the tear fluid of patients with hyperuricemia and gout and its association with uric acid level.

Methods: A total of 58 control subjects, 58 hyperuricemia patients including 40 asymptomatic hyperuricemia and 18 gout participants were recruited in this study. For tear analysis, each patient's tears were collected using capillary action microcaps after stimulation.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1) is a rare monogenic inherited disease caused by mutations of the autoimmune regulator gene (AIRE). The three major components of this syndrome are chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, hypoparathyroidism and adrenocortical insufficiency.

Case Presentation: We report a 20-year-old male who was clinically diagnosed with APS-1 at the age of 15.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Insulin resistance (IR) is the primary pathological mechanism underlying Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Many researches have reported the relationship between chronic inflammation and IR, while the extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) pathway is rapidly activated in inflammatory conditions. However, the functional role of ERK1/2 in IR remains to be identified.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Adropin has been identified as potent regulatory hormone implicated in insulin sensitivity and the maintenance of energy homeostasis. The aim of current study was to investigate serum adropin concentrations of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in the fasting status, especially those overweight/obese and evaluate the relationships between adropin levels and metabolic parameters. A total of 116 T2DM patients and 60 controls with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) were recruited to the study.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fopen(/var/lib/php/sessions/ci_session0kt8tt91asp5ota7r27auq64eb18pqak): Failed to open stream: No space left on device

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 177

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/html/index.php
Line: 316
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_start(): Failed to read session data: user (path: /var/lib/php/sessions)

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 137

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/html/index.php
Line: 316
Function: require_once