event
Tuesday 03 Nov 2020: Dynamics Seminar: Diabetes Pathogenesis as a Threshold-Crossing Process
Arthur Sherman - NIH
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/95995310215?pwd=Y2F5bFZ6Nm5aR1hORTduekhYeUJCZz09 Meeting ID: 959 9531 0215 Password: 761286 13:30-14:30
Insulin is the chief hormone that regulates glucose homeostasis, preserving glucose for use by the brain in fasting conditions but sharing glucose with other tissues, such as muscle, after meals. This orderly cycle of fuel usage is disrupted in obesity, which renders tissues resistant to the effects of insulin and leads to chronic hyperglycemia, a condition known as type 2 diabetes. A salient characteristic of diabetes is its relentless progressive nature, which is almost impossible to reverse once the disease is established and difficult to reverse in the pre-diabetes stage when glucose is elevated but below the diagnostic threshold. A puzzling feature is that people with pre-diabetes or in the early stages of T2D have abnormally high plasma insulin concentrations, and insulin rises before glucose does. We show that these characteristics of diabetes are explained by a mathematical model in which the onset of T2D is represented by the crossing of a threshold. The threshold is atypical in some respects and requires consideration of the slow manifolds to avoid incorrect conclusions. From a clinical point of view, the near irreversibility of diabetes once the threshold is crossed highlights the need for identifying people at risk early. We will apply the model to improving diabetes screening.
Link to recorded talk:https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nn6by8t3art3j0/DynamicsTalkArthurSherman.mp4?dl=0
