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- noun pathology The
toxic effects of excessive levels ofglucose in theblood (as indiabetes )
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Examples
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"Beyond reducing glucotoxicity, dapagliflozin might improve cardiovascular outcome by reducing overweight and blood pressure," they wrote.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010
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Poitout V, Robertson RP (2002) Minireview: secondary beta-cell failure in type 2 diabetes - a convergence of glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Etti Bachar et al. 2009
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"If, as we hypothesize, the inhibition of IL-1 beta improves the condition of insulin-producing cells in patients by breaking the vicious cycle of glucotoxicity, the implications would be very promising for the treatment of the disease."
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