TY - BOOK AU - Mona Mostafa Mohamed AU - Heba Mohmed Shawky , AU - Maged Ahmed Haroun , AU - Thanaa Gad Tadros , TI - Role of certain factors on insulin sensitive tissues / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mona Mostafa Mohamed , KW - Exercise KW - Obesity KW - Smoking N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Physiology; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -