Diabetes Therapy

Impaired copper homeostasis in diabetes is reversed by chelation

Published in Diabetes Week, July 11th, 2005

Hyperglycemia-driven pathogenic abnormality of copper homeostasis in diabetes can be reversed by selective chelation.

According to recent research from New Zealand, "We recently showed that treatment with the Cu(II)-selective chelator, trientine, alleviates heart failure in diabetic rats, improves left ventricular hypertrophy in humans with type 2 diabetes, and increases urinary Cu excretion in both diabetic rats and humans compared with nondiabetic control subjects.

"In this study, we characterized the homeostasis of Cu and eight other nutritionally essential elements in diabetes under fully residential conditions in male subjects with type 2...

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