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Clinical islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes mellitus: results of Australia’s first trial. Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats. The influence of implantation site on the biocompatibility and survival of alginate encapsulated pig islets in rats. Non-invasive glucose monitoring in patients with diabetes: A novel system based on impedance spectroscopy. Analysis of polymorphisms in 16 genes in type 1 diabetes that have been associated with other immune-mediated diseases. Free full text available in PDF format. Therapeutic potential of self-antigen-specific CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells selected in vitro from a polyclonal repertoire. Photosynthetic Oxygen Generator for Bioartificial Pancreas. Increased […]

Progression to type 1 diabetes in islet cell antibody-positive relatives in the European Nicotinamide Diabetes Intervention Trial: the role of additional immune, genetic and metabolic markers of risk. Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats. Familial clustering of autoimmune diseases in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Association of schizophrenia and autoimmune diseases: linkage of Danish national registers. Cerebral glutamate metabolism during hypoglycaemia in healthy and type 1 diabetic humans. Early diabetic complications in a population of young patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus despite intensive treatment. Age at Onset of Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes and the Development […]

Prolonged diabetes reversal after intraportal xenotransplantation of wild-type porcine islets in immunosuppressed nonhuman primates. See also U research holds hope for diabetics. The Bioartificial Pancreas: Progress and Challenges. Free full text available in PDF format. Strategies for Testing Long-Term Transcutaneous Amperometric Glucose Sensors. Free full text available in PDF format. Urinary oxidative stress markers in young patients with type 1 diabetes. Heart rate variability and circadian variations in type 1 diabetes mellitus. Stem Cell Breakthrough Helps 85% Of Type 2 Diabetes Patients. C-peptide exerts antithrombotic effects that are repressed by insulin in normal and diabetic mice. The joint diabetic-renal clinic […]

Serum alpha-tocopherol concentrations and risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus: a cohort study in siblings of affected children. The role of diabetes duration, pubertal development and metabolic control in growth in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intranasal insulin administered to patients with type 1 diabetes: a preliminary study. B-cell autoantibodies in children with type 2 diabetes mellitus: subgroup or misclassification? Type 1 diabetes and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA): one end of the rainbow. Free full text available in PDF format. Gene therapy strategies towards immune tolerance to treat the autoimmune diseases. Acute effects […]

The unique cytoarchitecture of human pancreatic islets has implications for islet cell function. Emerging Science Note/Sugar Blues. UVa Researchers Show that a Natural Carbohydrate can Help Lower Blood Sugar. Tsunami Induced Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mortality – Two studies from South India. Also available in PDF format.

Excess mortality in incident cases of diabetes mellitus aged 15 to 34 years at diagnosis: a population-based study (DISS) in Sweden. Taller Diabetics at Greater Risk for Amputation. Increased Myocardial Fatty Acid Metabolism in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. See also Diabetic heart is overdependent on fat. A case of slowly progressive type 1 diabetes with unstable glycemic control caused by unusual insulin antibody and successfully treated with steroid therapy. Expansion and redifferentiation of adult human pancreatic islet cells.

Testing the Accelerator Hypothesis: Body size, beta-cell function, and age at onset of type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes. Quality of life after islet transplantation. Mean Blood Glucose and Biological Variation Have Greater Influence on HbA1c Levels Than Glucose Instability: An analysis of data from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. Neuropathy Among the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Cohort 8 Years After Trial Completion. Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy Predicts Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Type 1 Diabetic Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy. Serum Lipids and the Progression of Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes. Effects of Type 1 Diabetes on Gray Matter Density as […]

Human fetal islet transplantation in type 1 diabetics: comparison of immunological effects between multiple implantation regimens. Cytoprotection of beta cells: rational gene transfer strategies. Allelic Variation in Key Peptide-Binding Pockets Discriminates between Closely Related Diabetes-Protective and Diabetes-Susceptible HLA-DQB1*06 Alleles. Preemptive transplantation for patients with diabetes-related kidney disease. Improved cardiovascular risk profile of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and renal failure after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. The estrogenic effect of bisphenol A disrupts pancreatic beta-cell function in vivo and induces insulin resistance. Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats. See also Diabetes from a Plastic? Estrogen mimic provokes insulin […]

Environmental factors related to the induction of beta-cell autoantibodies in 1-yr-old healthy children. Lower Consumption of Cow Milk Protein A1 beta-Casein at 2 Years of Age, Rather than Consumption among 11- to 14-Year-Old Adolescents, May Explain the Lower Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Iceland than in Scandinavia. Health Implications of Milk Containing beta-Casein with the A(2) Genetic Variant. Long-term (20 years) outcome and mortality of Type 1 diabetic patients in Soweto, South Africa. Excess mortality in Black compared with White patients with Type 1 diabetes: an examination of underlying causes. Total Homocysteine, Diet, and Lipid Profiles in Type 1 […]

Excess risk of fatal coronary heart disease associated with diabetes in men and women: meta-analysis of 37 prospective cohort studies. Free full text available in PDF format. The bioartificial pancreas: progress and challenges. New diabetes form found by Norwegian researchers. Beyond the beta cell in diabetes. Also available in PDF format. Glutathione-s-transferase M1 and T1 polymorphisms and associations with type 1 diabetes age-at-onset. Slowly progressing form of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children: genetic analysis compared with other forms of diabetes mellitus in Japanese children. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy in two children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.