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Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are studying the effect that high blood glucose (such as occurs in diabetes) has on body cells and how to reverse that effect, in an effort to prevent the devastating complications of diabetes which may affect the kidney, the retina and other organs.
 
They found that even after blood glucose levels returned to normal, the cells remained "stressed"; however the addition of an anti-oxidant reversed this effect.
 
This implies that anti-oxidant therapy may be beneficial to diabetes sufferers along with blood glucose control.

Local diabetes research proves enlightening

Edmond Sun - 3/14/2006 6:25 PM

A study by researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is shedding new light on how diabetes affects the body.
 
Dr. Michael Ihnat, an assistant professor of cell biology and director of the medical pharmacology course at the OUHSC, has completed research showing cells actually have a “memory” of the stress brought on by high glucose levels, a hallm
 
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