1. (Journal Article): Maternally transmitted diabetes and deafness associated with a 10.4 kb mitochondrial DNA deletion

Ballinger SW, Shoffner JM, Hedaya EV, Trounce I, Polak MA, Koontz DA, Wallace DC
 
ABSTRACT: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common chronic disorders of children and adults. Several reports have suggested an increased incidence of maternal transmission in some fo...

2. (Journal Article): The Application of Umbilical Cord Blood Cells in the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

Koblas T, Harman SM, Saudek F
 
ABSTRACT: In recent years, human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) has emerged as an attractive tool for cell-based therapy. Although at present the clinical application of HUCB is limited to the ...

3. (Journal Article): The role of GLP-1 in the life and death of pancreatic beta cells.

Perfetti R, Hui H
 
ABSTRACT: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a peptide hormone produce by intestinal cells, has recently been shown to be capable of modulating islet cell mass. Administration of GLP-1 to rode...

4. (Journal Article): Transcribing pancreas.

Edlund H
 
ABSTRACT: For approximately 30-35 years, our insight into some of the fundamental aspects of pancreas development has been based mainly on two independent studies performed in the 1960s by G...

5. (Journal Article): No evidence for significant transdifferentiation of bone marrow into pancreatic beta-cells in vivo.

Lechner A, Yang YG, Blacken RA, Wang L, Nolan AL, Habener JF
 
ABSTRACT: Several recent studies have suggested that the adult bone marrow harbors cells that can differentiate into tissues from all three germ layers. Other reports have contradicted these...

6. (Journal Article): Genes Mediating Environment Interactions in Type 1 Diabetes

Biros E, Jordan MA, Baxter AG
 
ABSTRACT: The relative risk of type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes mellitus for a sibling of an affected patient is fifteen times that of the general population, indicating a strong genetic contrib...

7. (Journal Article): The Influence of Physicians' Practice Management Strategies and Financial Arrangements on Quality of Care Among Patients With Diabetes

Keating NL, Landrum MB, Landon BE, Ayanian JZ, Borbas C, Wolf R, Guadagnoli E
 
ABSTRACT: CONTEXT:: Health care organizations use many strategies to influence physician behavior and the care delivered, but the effect of such strategies on quality is not known. OBJECTIVE...

8. (Journal Article): Role of hemochromatosis C282Y and H63D mutations in HFE gene in development of type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy

Moczulski DK, Grzeszczak W, Gawlik B
 
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: In patients with clinical hemochromatosis, the frequency of diabetes ranges from 20 to 50%, and the heterozygosity for the C282Y mutation in the HFE gene might be associ...

9. (Journal Article): Early glycemic control, age at onset, and development of microvascular complications in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a population-based study in northern Sweden.

Svensson M, Eriksson JW, Dahlquist G
 
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to study the impact of glycemic control (HbA(1c)) early in disease and age at onset on the occurrence of incipient diabetic nephropathy (MA) and...