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Immunosuppression and Procedure-Related Complications in 26 Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Receiving Allogeneic Islet Cell Transplantation. Time course of oxidative stress status in the postprandial and postabsorptive States in type 1 diabetes mellitus: relationship to glucose and lipid changes. In vivo imaging of islet transplantation. Interleukin-1 Stimulates beta-Cell Necrosis and Release of the Immunological Adjuvant HMGB1. Also available in PDF format. Plasma osteoprotegerin levels are associated with glycaemic status, systolic blood pressure, kidney function and cardiovascular morbidity in type 1 diabetic patients. An association between type 1 diabetes and idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Immune responses to an encapsulated allogeneic islet […]

Can we slow the rising incidence of childhood-onset autoimmune diabetes? The overload hypothesis. Use of antimicrobials and risk of type 1 diabetes in a population-based mother-child cohort. Long-term mortality in a nationwide cohort of childhood-onset type 1 diabetic patients in Norway. A Low Brain Serotonergic Neurotransmission in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Detected Through the Intensity Dependence of Auditory-Evoked Potentials.

Environmental factors related to the induction of beta-cell autoantibodies in 1-yr-old healthy children. Is immunity in diabetic patients influencing the susceptibility to infections? Immunoglobulins, complement and phagocytic function in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Cytoplasmic islet cell antibodies remain valuable in defining risk of progression to type 1 diabetes in subjects with other islet autoantibodies. The role of the diet as a risk factor for the development and progression of diabetic nephropathy. Free full text available in Portuguese in HTML and PDF formats. Characterization of human islet-like structures generated from pancreatic precursor cells in culture. Autoreactive CD8 […]

Dose-response relationship of an oral insulin spray in six patients with type 1 diabetes: A single-center, randomized, single-blind, 5-way crossover study. Unfavorable effect of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on maternal and fetal essential fatty acid status: a potential marker of fetal insulin resistance. New-onset diabetes and antihypertensive drugs. Tmem27: A cleaved and shed plasma membrane protein that stimulates pancreatic beta cell proliferation.

Low Levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes. Osteoprotegerin serum levels in children with type 1 diabetes: a potential modulating role in bone status. The impact of diabetes mellitus on skeletal health: an established phenomenon with inestablished causes? Increased vulnerability of newly forming beta cells to cytokine-induced cell death. Facilitating Physiologic Self-Regeneration: A Step Beyond Islet Cell Replacement. Free full text available in PDF format. Intraperitoneal alginate-encapsulated neonatal porcine islets in a placebo-controlled study with 16 diabetic cynomolgus primates. Endocrine self and gut non-self intersect in the pancreatic lymph nodes. New ways […]

The metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal: joint statement from the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. See also the discussion at BioCritique. The ‘accelerator hypothesis’: relationship between weight, height, body mass index and age at diagnosis in a large cohort of 9,248 German and Austrian children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Epidemiological Association between Some Dietary Habits and the Increasing Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes Worldwide. Would blockage of cytokines improve the outcome of pancreatic islet transplantation? Stem cells in the treatment of diabetes. Update on regulatory issues in pancreatic islet transplantation. Autoimmune destruction of pancreatic Beta cells. Gene Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes. Targeting T lymphocytes for immune monitoring and intervention in autoimmune diabetes. Immunotherapeutic approaches to prevent, ameliorate, and cure type 1 diabetes. Heterogeneity of vitamin D receptor gene association with celiac disease and type 1 diabetes mellitus. T-cell assays to determine disease activity and clinical efficacy of immune […]

Prevalence of impaired fasting glucose and its relationship with cardiovascular disease risk factors in US adolescents, 1999-2000. {beta}-cell Function, Insulin Sensitivity and Glucose Tolerance in Obese Diabetic and Nondiabetic Adolescents and Young Adults. Free full text available in PDF format. Emerging drugs for diabetic nephropathy. Fetal and neonatal exposure to nicotine in Wistar rats results in increased beta cell apoptosis at birth and postnatal endocrine and metabolic changes associated with type 2 diabetes. Stevioside does not cause increased basal insulin secretion or beta-cell desensitization as does the sulphonylurea, glibenclamide: Studies in vitro.

Islet Cell Hormonal Responses to Hypoglycemia After Human Islet Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes. Gene therapy for type 1 diabetes: a proposal to move to the next level. Color visual evoked potentials in children with type 1 diabetes: relationship to metabolic control. Decreased Endogenous Secretory Advanced Glycation End Product Receptor in Type 1 Diabetic Patients: Its possible association with diabetic vascular complications. Increased risk of diabetes among relatives of female insulin-treated patients diagnosed at 15-34 years of age. Exposure to Farming Environments in Early Life and Type 1 Diabetes: A Case-Control Study. Complex analysis of the physical metabolic and genetic […]

Nicotinamide protected first-phase insulin response (FPIR) and prevented clinical disease in first-degree relatives of type-1 diabetics. Boost for type 1 vaccine research. Enteroviruses: New findings on the role of enteroviruses in type 1 diabetes. Plasma homocysteine and microvascular and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes: a cross-sectional nested case-control study. MMR Vaccine is Safe, International Team Affirms.