Abstract
Hyperglycemia is the main characteristic of diabetes mellitus (DM) and is associated with high mortality in affected individuals. In previous studies, we evaluated phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K), protein kinase B (PKB, or Akt) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) proteins in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation, treated or not with…