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Infection with Soil-Transmitted Helminths Is Associated with Increased Insulin Sensitivity

OBJECTIVE: Given that helminth infections have been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in animal studies, which may be explained by beneficial effects on energy balance or by a shift in the immune system to an anti-inflammatory profile, we investigated whether soil-transmitted helminth (STH)-infec...

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Autores principales: Wiria, Aprilianto E., Hamid, Firdaus, Wammes, Linda J., Prasetyani, Margaretta A., Dekkers, Olaf M., May, Linda, Kaisar, Maria M. M., Verweij, Jaco J., Guigas, Bruno, Partono, Felix, Sartono, Erliyani, Supali, Taniawati, Yazdanbakhsh, Maria, Smit, Johannes W. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127746