Mona Mostafa Mohamed

Role of certain factors on insulin sensitive tissues / دور بعض العوامل على الانسجة ذات الاستجابة للانسولين Mona Mostafa Mohamed ; Supervised Thanaa Gad Tadros , Maged Ahmed Haroun , Heba Mohmed Shawky - Cairo : Mona Mostafa Mohamed , 2009 - 288P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Physiology

Obesity smoking and estrogen deficiency lead to alterations in lipid and glucose homeostasis. On the other hand estrogen supplementation as well as regular physical exercise training promotes glucose uptake and makes the working skeletal muscles more sensitive to insulin.Our purpose is to study the role of obesity whether due to genetic defects(Zucker rats) or induced by high fat diet exposure to passive smoking



Exercise Obesity Smoking