ReviewActa diabetologica2022
Diabetic sarcopenia: metabolic and molecular appraisal.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Factors associated with sarcopenia in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- Therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine on diabetic sarcopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- The efficacy of Sarcomeal® oral supplementation plus vitamin D3 on muscle parameters, metabolic factors, and quality of life in diabetic sarcopenia: a randomized controlled clinical trial.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Trial
- Protecting peritoneal dialysis patients: evaluation and prevention strategies for noninfectious risk factors.Renal failure · 2026Review
- Combined respiratory muscle training and photobiomodulation improve systemic and tissue-specific redox homeostasis in a rat model of type 2 diabetes.Acta diabetologica · 2026Article
- Interplay between sarcopenia and type 2 diabetes: mechanisms, implications, and therapeutic prospects.Nutrition & diabetes · 2026Review
- Toll of Chronic Metabolic Acidosis at Molecular, Cellular, and Systemic Levels: A Conceptual Framework to Revisit Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) Pathophysiology.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Association between diabetes and sarcopenia in US adults and the role of adiposity: a survey-weighted analysis of NHANES 2011-2018.BMC public health · 2026Article
- NGR1 Pretreatment Enhances the Therapeutic Efficacy of Transplanting Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Myocardial Infarction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Traditional Chinese Medicine for Diabetic Sarcopenia: A Review and Its Related Mechanisms.Journal of diabetes research · 2026Review
- Development and validation of a predictive model for sarcopenia in patients with type 2 diabetes based on the synergistic mechanism of insulin resistance and inflammation.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Establishment and evaluation of a novel tool based on inflammation-nutrition derived biomarkers for early diagnosis of diabetic foot ulcers.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Integrated transcriptomic analysis identifies lysosomal autophagy-related genes in sarcopenia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Association of serum chitinase-3-like protein 1 with sarcopenia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2025Article
- Exercise-Induced Short-Chain Fatty Acids: A Novel Therapeutic Target in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Sarcopenia.Aging and disease · 2025Review
- Nutritional Approach to Diabetic Sarcopenia: A Comprehensive Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
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- Diabetic Sarcopenia. A proposed muscle screening protocol in people with diabetes : Expert document.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2024Review
- Utilize multi-metabolic parameters as determinants for prediction of skeletal muscle mass quality in elderly type2 diabetic Chinese patients.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Myopathy is the missing slot from the routine clinical checkup for diabetic complications. Similarly, its pathophysiological, metabolic, and molecular bases are insufficiently explored. In this review, the above issues are highlighted with a focus on skeletal muscle atrophy (also described as diabetic sarcopenia), in contrast to the normal histological, physiological, and molecular features of the muscles. Literature search using published data from different online resources was used. Several diabetic myopathy etiological factors are discussed explicitly including; inflammation and immunological responses, with emphasis on TNFα and IL-6 overproduction, oxidative stress, neuropathy and vasculopathy, aging sarcopenia, antidiabetic drugs, and insulin resistance as a denominator. The pathophysiological hallmark of diabetic muscle atrophy is the decreased muscle proteins synthesis and increased degradation. The muscle protein degradation is conveyed by 4 systems; ubiquitin-proteasome, lysosomal autophagy, caspase-3, and calpain systems, and is mostly mediated via the IL6/STAT, TNF&IL6/NFκB, myostatin/Smad2/3, and FOXO1/3 signaling pathways, while the protein synthesis inhibition is mediated via suppression of the IGF1-PI3K-Akt-mTOR, and SC-Gαi2-pathways. Moreover, the satellite cells and multilineage muscle mesenchymal progenitor cells differentiation plays a major role on the fate of the affected muscle cells by taking an adipogenic, fibrogenic, or connective tissue lineage. As a conclusion, in this article, the pathological features of diabetic sarcopenia are reviewed at gross level, while at a molecular level the normal protein turnover, signal transduction, and pathways involved in muscle atrophy are described. Finally, an integrated network describing the molecular partakers in diabetic sarcopenia is presented.
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