Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Stressed out about obesity and insulin resistance

Obesity-related chronic inflammation underlies insulin resistance, a key feature of type 2 diabetes. Recent data link the stress pathway of the endoplasmic reticulum to this phenomenon.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: The development of systemic insulin resistance in obesity-induced inflammation and stress.

Simon Fenwick

References

  1. Wellen, K.E. & Hotamisligil, G.S. J. Clin. Invest. 115, 1111–1119 (2005).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Özcan, U. et al. Science 306, 457–461 (2004).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Aguirre, V. et al. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 1531–1537 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Aguirre, V., Uchida, T., Yenush, L., Davis, R. & White, M.F. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 9047–9054 (2000).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Gao, Z. et al. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 48115–48121 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Hotamisligil, G.S., Shargill, N.S. & Spiegelman, B.M. Science 259, 87–91 (1993).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Roytblat, L. et al. Obes. Res. 8, 673–675 (2000).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Straczkowski, M. et al. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 87, 4602–4606 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Hotamisligil, G.S. & Spiegelman, B.M. Diabetes 43, 1271–1278 (1994).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Sartipy, P. & Loskutoff, D.J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 7265–7270 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Hotamisligil, G.S., Arner, P., Caro, J.F., Atkinson, R.L. & Spiegelman, B.M. J. Clin. Invest. 95, 2409–2415 (1995).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Visser, M., Bouter, L.M., McQuillan, G.M., Wener, M.H. & Harris, T.B. JAMA 282, 2131–2135 (1999).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Yuan, M. et al. Science 293, 1673–1677 (2001).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Kim, J.K. et al. J. Clin. Invest. 108, 437–446 (2001).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Hundal, R.S. et al. J. Clin. Invest. 109, 1321–1326 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Hirosumi, J. et al. Nature 420, 333 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Bandyopadhyay, G.K., Yu, J.G., Ofrecio, J. & Olefsky, J.M. Diabetes 54, 2351–2359 (2005).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Su, B. Nat. Immunol. 6, 541 (2005).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Weisberg, S.P. et al. J. Clin. Invest. 112, 1796–1808 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Xu, H. et al. J. Clin. Invest. 112, 1821–1830 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Arkan, M.C. et al. Nat. Med. 11, 191 (2005).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

de Luca, C., Olefsky, J. Stressed out about obesity and insulin resistance. Nat Med 12, 41–42 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0106-41

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0106-41

This article is cited by

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing