Learn About Diabetes
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What is Diabetes Mellitus?
Diabetes Mellitus is characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar). People with Diabetes have a hard time breaking up the sugar in their blood, either because there’s not enough insulin or the insulin isn’t working right. This can make you feel tired or sick.
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There are 2 types of Diabetes.
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Type 1
Type 1 diabetes occurs when your body stops making insulin, usually because the beta cells in your pancreas get attacked by mistake.
Type 2
Type 2 diabetes occurs when there are problems with your body making enough insulin.
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This page from the RCSB Protein Data Bank 101 gives an overview of diabetes including the two types, what goes wrong with insulin in each case, how proteins like insulin, insulin receptors, and glucose transporters are involved, and how diabetes is diagnosed and treated using medications like insulin injections.
Want to understand the entire insulin secretion pathway?
Click below to explore the pathway and the steps where insulin production can go wrong, causing diabetes
