Abstract
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hiperglycemia. This disease is due to either absolute (Type 1), or relative (Type 2) insulin deficiency, linked, or not, with insulin resistance (IR). However, during the onset of DM type 2 there is an increase in beta cell mass functionality, induced by IR. This represents an effort to counteract the deleterious eff…