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Younger age at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children of immigrated families born in Italy. Combination Therapy with Epidermal Growth Factor and Gastrin Induces Neogenesis of Human Islet {beta}-Cells from Pancreatic Duct Cells and an Increase in Functional {beta}-Cell Mass. Inhibition of cellular immune responses to encapsulated porcine islet xenografts by simultaneous blockade of two different costimulatory pathways. Effects of diet and exercise on muscle and liver intracellular lipid contents and insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetic patients. Cancer Drug for Diabetes? summarizes Imatinib and Regression of Type 2 Diabetes. Chemists Identify Key Gene in Development of Type […]

Do microbes have a causal role in type 1 diabetes? Immune modulation for prevention of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Combined positivity for HLA DQ2/DQ8 and IA-2 antibodies defines population at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Mean HbA(1)c over 18 years predicts carotid intima media thickness in women with type 1 diabetes. Impaired microvascular function related to poor metabolic control in young patients with diabetes.

Antibody Response to Inhaled Insulin in Patients with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. Modeling insulin action for development of a closed-loop artificial pancreas. Run-to-Run Control of Meal-Related Insulin Dosing. Impaired Retinal Angiogenesis in Diabetes: Role of Advanced Glycation End Products and Galectin-3. Increased aortic stiffness is persistent in type 1 diabetic women: a follow-up study. Sex differences in the effect of diabetes duration on coronary heart disease mortality. Anemia with impaired erythropoietin response in diabetic patients. Lung function and glucose metabolism: an analysis of data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey. Bungled insulin production may be […]

Long-Term Graft Function of Adult Rat and Human Islets Encapsulated in Novel Alginate-Based Microcapsules After Transplantation in Immunocompetent Diabetic Mice. Effects of Sustained Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia on Cardiovascular Autonomic Regulation in Type 1 Diabetes. Effects of Pramlintide on Postprandial Glucose Excursions and Measures of Oxidative Stress in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes. Fructose Normalizes Specific Counterregulatory Responses to Hypoglycemia in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes. Reduced plasma total homocysteine concentrations in Type 1 diabetes mellitus is determined by increased renal clearance. Experimental Diabetic Neuropathy With Spontaneous Recovery: Is There Irreparable Damage? Associations of Mortality and Diabetes Complications in Patients With Type […]

Single-Donor, Marginal-Dose Islet Transplantation in Patients With Type 1. See also U of M reports advance in diabetes treatment and Single-Donor Pancreas Islet Transplantation Procedure Shows Promise. Caries risk assessment as a predictor of metabolic control in young Type 1 diabetics. The annual incidence of diabetic complications in a population of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The electrophysiological findings of subclinical neuropathy in patients with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus. Vasoactive mediators and retinopathy during type 1 diabetic pregnancy. Screening for associated autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes mellitus with respect to diabetes control. Free full text […]

Science – Charitable Choices by Neil Munro offers an assessment of the issues associated with funding research proposed by Dr. Denise Faustman and supported by the Iacocca Foundation. Use of Anti-CD3 Monoclonal Antibody to Induce Immune Regulation in Type 1 Diabetes. Unravelling the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes with proteomics-present and future directions. Free full text available in PDF format. Alba Therapeutics Corporation Reports the Successful Treatment of Type I Diabetes in the BB/wor Rat Model of Diabetes with Zonulin Antagonist AT-1001. See also Baltimore Biotech Gains in Diabetes Fight and Alba Therapeutics. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and safety of exenatide in […]

Living donor diabetes transplant. See also World-First Living Donor Transplant of Islet Cells a Success and Shot in the arm! Breakthrough transplant gives diabetics hope. Is Transplantation in Diabetics Justified? Successful islet after kidney transplantations in a distance over 1000 kilometres: Preliminary results of the Budapest-Geneva collaboration. Oral insulin therapy to prevent progression of immune-mediated (type 1) diabetes. Markers of inflammation are cross-sectionally associated with microvascular complications and cardiovascular disease in type 1 diabetes-the EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study. Social and psychological characteristics of Kuwaiti children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Vitamin D receptor polymorphism and susceptibility to type 1 […]

Psychological Stress May Induce Diabetes-Related Autoimmunity in Infancy. Parental age at delivery, birth order, birth weight and gestational age are associated with the risk of childhood Type 1 diabetes: a UK regional retrospective cohort study. Increasing body weight predicts the earlier onset of insulin-dependant diabetes in childhood: testing the ‘accelerator hypothesis’ (2). Vitamin d in type 1 diabetes prevention. Psychiatric morbidity and health outcome in Type 1 diabetes – perspectives from a prospective longitudinal study. Insulin treatment and cardiovascular disease; friend or foe? A point of view. Vascular risk factors and diabetic neuropathy. Predicting vascular risk in Type 1 diabetes: […]

Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells. See also Adult Spleen Cells Demonstrate Regenerative Properties Associated with Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem cell treatment reverses diabetes: Argentine researchers. Insulin autoantibodies in cord blood from neonates with and without a sibling with type 1 diabetes-prevalence and characterization. Sudden cardiac death in diabetes mellitus: risk factors in the Rochester diabetic neuropathy study. Antioxidative treatment prevents activation of death-receptor- and mitochondrion-dependent apoptosis in the hearts of diabetic rats. Relationship between HbA(1)c and mortality in a Japanese population. Coffee consumption and glucose tolerance status in middle-aged Japanese men. Coffee consumption and incidence of impaired […]

Pubertal changes in serum leptin levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a controlled longitudinal study. Comparison of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Properties of Single-Dose Oral Insulin Spray and Subcutaneous Insulin Injection in Healthy Subjects Using the Euglycemic Clamp Technique. Raised glucose concentrations and diabetes are associated with cancer risk. Also available in PDF format. Ten-year incidence of self-reported erectile dysfunction in people with long-term type 1 diabetes. Impact of simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant and timing of transplant on kidney allograft survival. The Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND); Design and methods. Apolipoprotein C-III protein concentrations and gene polymorphisms in […]