Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Chromium supplement enhances cellular insulin signaling in obese insulin-resistant rats
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 20th, 2006
According to a study from the United States, "Chromium is one of the few trace minerals for which a specific cellular mechanism of action has not been identified. Recent in vitro studies suggest that chromium supplementation may improve insulin sensitivity by enhancing insulin receptor signaling, but this has not been demonstrated in vivo."
Z.Q. Wang and colleagues at Louisiana State University assessed "the effect of chromium supplementation on insulin receptor signaling in an insulin-resistant rat model, the JCR:LA-corpulent rat. Male JCR:LA-cp...
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