271. (Journal Article): Cholesterol Emboli Syndrome in Type 2 Diabetes: The Disease History of a Case Evaluated with Renal Scintigraphy

Piccoli GB, Sargiotto A, Burdese M, Colla L, Bilucaglia D, Magnano A, Consiglio V, Piccoli G, Picciotto G
 
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Cholesterol crystal emboli syndrome (CCE) is an emerging disease, whose progression reflects the currently observed increase in cardiovascular diseases. Diagnostic crit...

272. (Journal Article): Components of total measurement error for hemoglobin A(1c) determination.

Phillipov G, Phillips PJ
 
ABSTRACT: The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and the UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), undertaken in people with type 1 and 2 diabetes, respectively, established the si...

273. (Journal Article): Type 2 Diabetes – Failure, Blame and Guilt in the Adoption of Insulin Therapy

Phillips P
 
ABSTRACT: Type 2 Diabetes is a progressive disease with an insidious onset, including decreased first-phase insulin secretion and mild forms of hyperinsulinemia caused by heterogenous factor...

274. (Journal Article): Elimination of Dietary Gluten and Development of Type 1 Diabetes in High Risk Subjects

Fuchtenbusch M, Ziegler AG, Hummel M
 
ABSTRACT: Removal of dietary gluten is associated with a lower frequency of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in patients with celiac disease. Therefore, we performed a pilot study in which seven islet-...

275. (Journal Article): Insulinotropic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Rosiglitazone in Experimental Autoimmune Diabetes

Awara WM, El-Sisi AE, Mohamed El-Refaei M, El-Naa MM, El-Desoky K
 
ABSTRACT: Cytokines and nitric oxide (NO) are involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes mellitus (DM). Rosiglitazone is an insulin-sensitizing drug that is a ligand for the nuclear...

276. (Journal Article): Assessment of Insulin Sensitivity in Adults with Permanent Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus due to Mutations in the KCNJ11 Gene Encoding Kir6.2

Skupien J, Malecki MT, Mlynarski W, Klupa T, Wanic K, Gach A, Solecka I, Sieradzki J
 
ABSTRACT: Activating mutations in the KCNJ11 gene encoding the Kir6.2 subunit of ATP-sensitive potassium channel have been described in patients with permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PN...

277. (Journal Article): Apoptosis in Autoimmune Diabetes: The Fate of β-Cells in the Cleft between Life and Death

Sia C, Hanninen A
 
ABSTRACT: Cytokine-induced β-cell death is the end-stage event in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes. Beside cytokines, several pro-apoptotic pathways mediated through nitric oxide, re...

278. (Journal Article): Adult human cytokeratin 19-positive cells reexpress insulin promoter factor 1 in vitro.

Gmyr V, Kerr-Conte J, Belaich S, Vandewalle B, Leteurtre E, Vantyghem MC, Lecomte-Houcke M, Proye C, Lefebvre J, Pattou F
 
ABSTRACT: Human pancreatic cells with a typical ductal phenotype and potential to proliferate can be obtained in vitro, but the differentiation capacity of these putative human pancreatic st...

279. (Journal Article): Immunotherapy After Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Combinatorial Treatment for Achieving Long-Term Remission in Humans?

Bresson D, von Herrath M
 
ABSTRACT: Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), or type 1 diabetes mellitus (TlDM), is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. This chronic disorder is thought to be caused by auto...

280. (Journal Article): Prospects for gene therapy of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

Efrat S
 
ABSTRACT: The application of gene therapy to type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus awaits improvements in gene transfer technologies and the development of better tools for accurate d...