ITGAM and type 2 diabetes mellitus: 2007) in T2D subjects, possibly predicting cardiovascular events (Cavalot et al. 2006). Similarly, following an oral sucrose load, CD11b mRNA expression increased in streptozocin-treated rats (Mochizuki et al. 2010) and the same adhesion marker significantly increased in the monocytes of both healthy and T2D human subject groups during a glucose challenge (Sampson et al. 2002).