In diabetic patients and healthy controls, glutathione abolished the circulating ICAM-1 increase during oral glucose testing.
In plain wordsIn diabetic patients and healthy controls, glutathione prevented the ICAM-1 increase compared with glucose testing alone.
- Peptide
- Glutathione
- Outcome
- DecreaseGlucose-induced circulating ICAM-1 increase
- Study
n = 16
- Comparator
- Oral glucose tolerance test alone
- Outcome group
- Inflammation markers · Immune and inflammation
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intravenous · two hAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Glutathione administration during the oral glucose tolerance test abolished this phenomenon.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
During the oral glucose tolerance test, circulating ICAM-1 plasma levels significantly increased in both diabetic and normal subjects.
In this study, three different experiments were performed in nine NIDDM patients and in seven matched healthy controls: oral glucose tolerance test, antioxidant glutathione i.v. administration for two h, oral glucose tolerance test plus glutathione i.v. administration.