141. (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 ...

142. (Journal Article): The infusion of ex vivo activated and expanded CD4(+)CD25(+) immune regulatory cells inhibits graft-versus-host disease lethality.

Taylor PA, Lees CJ, Blazar BR
 
ABSTRACT: Immune regulatory CD4(+)CD25(+) cells play a vital role in the induction and maintenance of self-tolerance and the prevention of autoimmunity. Recently, CD4(+)CD25(+) cells have be...

143. (Journal Article): The beta cell in autoimmune diabetes: many mechanisms and pathways of loss.

Kay TW, Thomas HE, Harrison LC, Allison J
 
ABSTRACT: Death of pancreatic beta cells is the final step in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes before it becomes clinically apparent. Applying recent basic research about how cells die to...

144. (Journal Article): Molecular mechanisms and clinical pathophysiology of maturity-onset diabetes of the young

Fajans SS, Bell GI, Polonsky KS
 
ABSTRACT: Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by nonketotic diabetes mellitus, an autosomal dominant mode of inheritanc...

145. (Journal Article): Portal venous pressure changes after sequential clinical islet transplantation.

Casey JJ, Lakey JR, Ryan EA, Paty BW, Owen R, O'Kelly K, Nanji S, Rajotte RV, Korbutt GS, Bigam D, Kneteman NN, Shapiro AM
 
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Sequential pancreatic islet transplantation via the portal vein has led to insulin independence in patients with type 1 diabetes. Complications associated with the inje...

146. (Journal Article): Renal structure and function in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and type I membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in humans.

Mauer SM, Lane P, Hattori M, Fioretto P, Steffes MW
 
ABSTRACT: Renal pathological changes of diabetes include thickening of all renal extracellular basement membranes and the mesangial matrix and, to a lesser extent, mesangial cell expansion. ...

147. (Journal Article): Long term magnesium supplementation influences favourably the natural evolution of neuropathy in Mg-depleted type 1 diabetic patients (T1dm)

De Leeuw I, Engelen W, De Block C, Van Gaal L
 
ABSTRACT: Chronic Mg depletion in T1dm has been linked to polyneuropathy (PNP). Short term Mg supplementation has suggested a decrease in pathological EMG signs typical for PNP. The aim of t...

148. (Journal Article): The effect of age on insulin resistance and secretion: a review.

Muller DC, Elahi D, Tobin JD, Andres R
 
ABSTRACT: Aging is associated with an increased incidence of hypertension, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease. Because these conditions often cluster in the s...

149. (Journal Article): Multifactorial basis of the syndrome of diabetic embryopathy.

Reece EA, Homko CJ, Wu YK
 
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current paper is to explore the multifactorial basis of diabetes-induced embryopathy. METHOD: A review of the literature regarding congenital malformation...

150. (Journal Article): Genital infections among girls with type 1 diabetes

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ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between genital infections (frequency, etiology, clinical presentation) among girls with type 1 diabetes and some factors as ag...