Metabolic Diseases

Metabolism, including the biosynthesis and decomposition of carbohydrate, lipid, protein and other substances and energy metabolism, maintains the normal operation of cells. Metabolic syndrome, which is caused by the disorder of cell metabolism, is pathogenesis of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and so on.

Obesity is one of the most common epidemics in the world, often accompanied by type 2 diabetes, hypertension and lipid metabolism disorder. It is considered to be the most important risk factor of metabolic syndrome.

There are large numbers of biomarkers being used to evaluate the metabolic syndrome, such as triglycerides, HDL-C, glucose, and urinary albumin.

Elabscience provides related metabolism assay kits and metabolic pathway diagrams for metabolic diseases researches.