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A LATERAL VIEW OF DIABETES FROM THE CARIBBEAN. The Hon. Errol Y. St. A. Morrison, OJ MD, PhD, FRCP (Glasg), FACP, FRSM (UK) Professor of Biochemistry and Endocrinology Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean School for Graduate Studies and Research UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
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A LATERAL VIEW OF DIABETES FROM THE CARIBBEAN The Hon. Errol Y. St. A. Morrison, OJ MD, PhD, FRCP (Glasg), FACP, FRSM (UK) Professor of Biochemistry and Endocrinology Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean School for Graduate Studies and Research UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES Mona Campus, Jamaica W.I.
Hugh Jones 1955 Zuidema 1956 Morrison 1981 Atypical Diabetes; Undernutrition; Bush teas (CAM) & Staple root crops
Atypical Diabetes • - hyperglycaemic & aglycosuric • asymptomatic hyperglycaemia • intermittent insulin requirement • aketonuric • 13% of Diabetes Outpatient Clinic at UHWI, Mona, Jamaica
Francis Bacon If a man will begin with certainties, He shall end in doubts; But if he will be content to begin with doubts, He shall end in certainties!
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS FOOD “TOXINS”, UNDERNUTRITION FREE RADICALS
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) FR DAMAGE TO CELL MEMBRANE Level 1
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) DAMAGE TO CELL MEMBRANE VIRAL INFECTIONS INDUCED ANTIGENS EXPOSED ANTIGENS
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) EA IA Level 2 ANTIBODIES DIRECT TOXICITY INSULIN RECEPTORS GLUCOSE TRANSPORTERS ISLET CELLS
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) IC IR OBESITY GT INSULIN INSUFFICIENCY Level 3 INSULIN RESISTANCE
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) INSULIN RESISTANCE INSULIN INSUFFICIENCY TYPE 1 INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS PIDDM PHASIC INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2 NON-INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) Level 1: Membrane damage Level 2: Antibody production Level 3: Insulin resistance & insufficiency
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) N.B.: If the processes at levels 1, 2 or 3 remit, then TEMPORARY DIABETES would result!
AN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) N.B.: GESTATIONAL DIABETES (GDM) IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE (IGT)……possible manifestations of level 3 activity.
THE UNITARIAN HYPOTHESIS FOR THE AETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS HERESY TODAY? FACT TOMORROW!
CONSENSUS ON THE AETIOLOGY OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS SRI LANKA, JULY 2002 OVERNUTRITION UNDERNUTRITION Increase in type 2 DM in childhood and adolescence Low birth weight increase in type 2 DM
CONSENSUS ON THE AETIOLOGY OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS (contd.) • There is a strong association between: • Truncal Obesity • Diabetes Mellitus • Impaired Glucose Tolerance • Cardiovascular Disease
Hugh Jones 1955 Zuidema 1956 Morrison 1981 Atypical Diabetes; Undernutrition; Bush teas (CAM) & Staple root crops
ROOT CROPS a case study.
CYANOGLUCOSIDES • E.g. Linamarin, lotaustralin (toxic cyanide radical) • Found in root crops: • Cassava, yucca (Manihot esculenta), • Yams (Dioscorides group)
MAIN METABOLIC PATHWAY OF CYANIDE WITH RHODANESE S S —S —SO3 E E (S —SO3)2- + S S rhodanese thiosulphate CN S E SCN SO32- + + S thiocyanate
METABOLIC PATHWAY OF CYANIDE WITH 3 - MERCAPTOPYRUVATE TRANSAMINATION 3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE [HSCH2COCOOH] L – CYSTEINE [SHCH2CH(NH2)COOH] CN – SULPHUR TRANSFERASE SCN PYRUVATE +
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