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Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Interstitial Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Reflects Excursions in Cerebral Cortex. Environmental Triggers for Type 1 Diabetes. Therapeutic Neovascularization Using Cord Blood�Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Diabetic Neuropathy. Association between a protein polymorphism in the start codon of the vitamin D receptor gene and severe diabetic retinopathy in C-peptide-negative type 1 diabetes. Frequency, Severity, and Morbidity of Hypoglycemia Occurring in the Workplace in People With Insulin-Treated Diabetes. Dose-Response Relationship of Oral Insulin Spray in Healthy Subjects. Long-Term Impact of Breast-Feeding on Body Weight and Glucose Tolerance in Children of Diabetic Mothers. Nephropathy, but not retinopathy, […]

Scientists clone cells from human patients. See also Stem cell breakthrough and Stem cell breakthrough in UK and South Korea. Minocycline reduces proinflammatory cytokine expression, microglial activation, and caspase-3 activation in a rodent model of diabetic retinopathy. See also A Penn State College of Medicine study suggests that a common antibiotic called minocycline may slow or prevent diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that is the leading cause of blindness in people ages 20 to 74. Normalization of glucose post-transplantation of pig pancreatic anlagen into non-immunosuppressed diabetic rats depends on obtaining anlagen prior to embryonic day 35. See also Precise […]

Insulin sparks autoimmunity. See summary at Study at UCDHSC Identifies Crucial Islet Target in Type 1 Diabetes; Finding Is Likely to Transform the Study of Diabetes Autoimmunity. See also CU team discovers crucial clue to diabetes; Health Sciences scientists find proof of trigger in Type 1. C-reactive protein concentration is not related to islet autoimmunity status in offspring of parents with type 1 diabetes. Can Continuous Glucose Monitoring Provide Objective Documentation Of Hypoglycemia Unawareness? Evaluation of metabolic control using a continuous subcutaneous glucose monitoring system in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus who achieved insulin independence after islet cell transplantation. […]

Pancreas donation for islet transplantation. Pancreas islet transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus after kidney transplantation. Kidney-Pancreas Transplants: Is It So Difficult to Start a Program? Dynamics of diabetes-associated autoantibodies in young children with human leukocyte antigen-conferred risk of type 1 diabetes recruited from the general population. Bone calcium changes during diabetic ketoacidosis: A comparison with lactic acidosis due to volume depletion. Impact of insulin on microvascular blood flow and endothelial cell function in the postprandial state in patients with Type 1 diabetes. Increased plasma adiponectin concentrations are associated with microangiopathy in type 1 diabetic subjects. Beneficial autoimmunity […]

Effects of Oral Insulin in Relatives of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: The Diabetes Prevention Trial�Type 1 concluded that “…oral insulin did not delay or prevent type 1 diabetes.” Study shows natural glucose byproduct may prevent brain damage and cognitive impairment after diabetic coma. See also Pyruvate Administered After Severe Hypoglycemia Reduces Neuronal Death and Cognitive Impairment. Time-Action Profile of Inhaled Insulin in Comparison With Subcutaneously Injected Insulin Lispro and Regular Human Insulin. Living-Donor Islet Transplantation: A Newsmaker Interview With Shinichi Matsumoto, MD, PhD. Incretin hormones and insulin sensitivity. Producing Insulin from Neural Cells. Also available in PDF format. Differentiation […]

Dietary manipulation of beta cell autoimmunity in infants at increased risk of type 1 diabetes: a pilot study. Insights into the acute cerebral metabolic changes associated with childhood diabetes. Differentiation of Insulin-Producing Cells from Human Neural Progenitor Cells. Association of childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus with a variant of PAX4: possible link to beta cell regenerative capacity. Psychosocial aspects of xenotransplantation: survey in adolescent recipients of porcine islet cells. Type 1 Diabetes in the Spanish Population: additional factors to Class II HLA-DR3 and -DR4. Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats. Structural-tridimensional study of yolk sac in pregnancies […]

Vitamin D-binding protein gene polymorphism association with IA-2 autoantibodies in type 1 diabetes. The Spring 2005 issue of Diabetes Update from Diabetes UK explores work being done to find a vaccine to prevent type 1 diabetes. See also Vaccine gives hope to Type 1 diabetics. Diabetes-related antibodies in euglycemic subjects. Should We Be Performing Pancreas Transplants? Widening of foot processes in normoalbuminuric adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Researcher grows new insulin-secreting beta cells from pancreatic tissue. Scientists use transcription factors to increase insulin production in diabetic mice. Scientists at diabetes center find genetic defects in immunological tolerance. The Boston Globe […]

Early infant diet and risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus in Belgrade children. Do microbes have a causal role in type 1 diabetes? is the free, full text article to a paper previously cited here. Clinical characteristics at onset of Type 1 diabetes in children diagnosed between 1977 and 2001 in the south-east region of Sweden. Clinical implications of N-(carboxymethyl)lysine, advanced glycation end product, in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Human blood cells coaxed to produce insulin. Reluctance of French patients with type 1 diabetes to undergo pig pancreatic islet xenotransplantation. Transplantation of neonatal porcine islets and sertoli […]

The role of the innate immunity in islet transplantation. Inflammatory gene expression in Coxsackievirus B-4-infected human islets of Langerhans. Regulatory T cells and type 1 diabetes. Predicting type 1 diabetes. Glycaemic effects of incretins in Type 1 diabetes mellitus A concise review, with emphasis on studies in humans. Human blood cells coaxed to produce insulin. Xenogenous transplantation of insular cells without immunosuppressive therapy in the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. TRIGR – Trial to Reduce the Incidence of type 1 diabetes in the Genetically at Risk. Clinical outcomes of phacoemulsification cataract surgery in diabetes patients: visual function (VF-14), visual acuity and […]

Change in perceived health and functioning over time in patients with type I diabetes mellitus. The stages of type 1A diabetes: 2005. Maternal Efforts to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes in At-Risk Children. Autoantibody “Subspecificity” in Type 1 Diabetes: Risk for organ-specific autoimmunity clusters in distinct groups. Residual insulin secretion at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is independently associated with both, age of onset and HLA genotype. Human leukocyte antigen class I B and C loci contribute to Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) susceptibility and age at T1D onset. Critical Role Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Activity in Experimental Autoimmune Diabetes. Free […]