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Here, we used differentiating H9c2 cardiomyoblasts to model chronic hypoglycemic (2.5 mM), normoglycemic (5 mM), and hyperglycemic (30 mM) conditions as opposing metabolic challenges, and examined their effects on substrate transport, lipid homeostasis, and stress-induced cell death pathways.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p id=\"paragraph-5b9e3a4796a62eb8c706b57258N65757\">Both hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic stress reprogrammed phenotypes, but through distinct mechanisms. Hypoglycemic stress increased expression of the glucose transporter GLUT1, concomitantly enhancing functional glucose uptake. It also upregulated the fatty-acid transporter CD36 and carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 (CPT1), indicating coordinated enhancement of substrate uptake and mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation. In contrast, hyperglycemic stress suppressed GLUT1 expression and decreased glucose uptake, while increasing CD36 without upregulating CPT1. Under iso-osmotic conditions, this resulted in intracellular lipid accumulation consistent with an overload and lipotoxic stress. When challenged with anoxia\u2013reoxygenation, hypoglycemia-conditioned cells predominantly engaged autophagy, as shown by increased LC3B-II\/LC3B-I ratio, whereas hyperglycemia-conditioned cells exhibited enhanced apoptotic signaling, with increased caspase-3, PARP cleavage and DNA fragmentation. Notably, normoglycemic differentiation conferred the greatest resistance to oxygen fluctuations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p id=\"paragraph-5b9e3a4796a62eb8c706b57258N65759\">Together, these findings demonstrate that chronic glycemic stress during cardiomyoblast differentiation programs divergent stress-response pathways, biasing cells toward autophagy or apoptosis in response to acute injury. 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