Diabetologia

Early and intermediate Amadori glycosylation adducts, oxidative stress, and endothelial dysfunction in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats vasculature

L. Rodríguez-Mañas, J. Angulo, S. Vallejo, C. Peiró, A. Sánchez-Ferrer, E. Cercas, P. López-Dóriga, C. F. Sánchez-Ferrer

Norepinephrine release is reduced in cardiac tissue of Type 2 diabetic patients

C. Burgdorf, D. Richardt, T. Kurz, S. Adler, A. Nötzold, E. G. Kraatz, H. H. Sievers, G. Richardt

Ghrelin Arg51Gln mutation is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes and hypertension in a random sample of middle-aged subjects

S. Pöykkö, O. Ukkola, H. Kauma, M. J. Savolainen, Y. A. Kesäniemi

Circulating anti-pericyte autoantibodies are present in Type 2 diabetic patients and are associated with non-proliferative retinopathy

R. C. Nayak, C. D. Agardh, M. G. K. Kwok, H. Stjernquist, P. J. Farthing-Nayak, E. Agardh

Apolipoprotein e4 allele and endothelium-dependent arterial dilation in Type 2 diabetes mellitus without angiopathy

X. Guangda, W. Yuhua

Demonstration of increased concentrations of circulating glycated insulin in human Type 2 diabetes using a novel and specific radioimmunoassay

J. R. Lindsay, A. M. McKillop, M. H. Mooney, F. P. M. O'Harte, P. M. Bell, P. R. Flatt

In situ protein Kinase C activity is increased in cultured fibroblasts from Type 1 diabetic patients with nephropathy

E. Iori, M. C. Marescotti, M. Vedovato, G. Ceolotto, A. Avogaro, A. Tiengo, S. Del Prato, R. Trevisan

Destruction of conditional insulinoma cell lines in NOD mice: A role for autoimmunity

P. Cattan, D. Rottembourg, S. Cottet, I. Tardivel, P. Dupraz, B. Thorens, C. Boitard, J. C. Carel

Oxidant regulation of gene expression and neural tube development: Insights gained from diabetic pregnancy on molecular causes of neural tube defects

T. I. Chang, M. Horal, S. K. Jain, F. Wang, R. Patel, M. R. Loeken

Adeno-associated viral vector-mediated human vascular endothelial growth factor gene transfer stimulates angiogenesis and wound healing in the genetically diabetic mouse

M. Galeano, B. Deodato, D. Altavilla, D. Cucinotta, N. Arsic, H. Marini, V. Torre, M. Giacca, F. Squadrito

A genome scan for loci linked to quantitative insulin traits in persons without diabetes: the Framingham Offspring Study

C. I. M. Panhuysen, L. A. Cupples, P. W. F. Wilson, A. G. Herbert, R. H. Myers, J. B. Meigs

Aspirin use is associated with higher serum concentrations of the anti-oxidant enzyme, paraoxonase-1

M. C. Blatter-Garin, B. Kalix, S. De Pree, R. W. James

Amylin gene promoter mutations predispose to Type 2 diabetes in New Zealand Maori

N. R. Poa, G. J. S. Cooper, P. F. Edgar

T130I mutation in HNF-4α gene is a loss-of-function mutation in hepatocytes and is associated with late-onset Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese subjects

Q. Zhu, K. Yamagata, A. Miura, N. Shihara, Y. Horikawa, J. Takeda, J. Miyagawa, Y. Matsuzawa

Effect of acute hyperglycaemia on selected plasma and urinary cytokine antagonists in Type 1 diabetes mellitus

T. Pelikánová, R. Šimková, V. Tesař, M. Jirsa

Promiscuous binding of proinsulin peptides to Type 1 diabetes-permissive and -protective HLA class II molecules

T. P. Astill, R. J. Ellis, S. Arif, T. I. M. Tree, M. Peakman

Soluble adhesion molecules in pre-clinical Type 1 diabetes: a prospective study

A. M. Toivonen, P. Kulmala, K. Savola, H. K. Åkerblom, M. Knip

Insulin signalling pathways in aorta and muscle from two animal models of insulin resistance—the obese middle-aged and the spontaneously hypertensive rats

H. G. Zecchin, R. M. N. Bezerra, J. B. C. Carvalheira, M. A. Carvalho-Filho, K. Metze, K. G. Franchini, M. J. A. Saad

Relationship of adiponectin to body fat distribution, insulin sensitivity and plasma lipoproteins: evidence for independent roles of age and sex

M. Cnop, P. J. Havel, K. M. Utzschneider, D. B. Carr, M. K. Sinha, E. J. Boyko, B. M. Retzlaff, R. H. Knopp, J. D. Brunzell, S. E. Kahn

—to: Pani MA, Van Autreve J, Van Der Auwera BJ, Gorus FK, Badenhoop K (2002) Non-transmitted maternal HLA DQ2 or DQ8 alleles and risk of Type I diabetes in offspring: the importance of foetal or post partum exposure to diabetogenic molecules. Diabetologia 45:1340–1343

R. Hermann, R. Veijola, I. Sipilä, M. Knip, H. K. Åkerblom, O. Simell, J. Ilonen

P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase mediates hexosamine-induced TGFβ1 mRNA expression in human mesangial cells

D. J. Burt, G. Gruden, S. M. Thomas, P. Tutt, C. Dell'Anna, G. C. Viberti, L. Gnudi

Authors' reply

K. Badenhoop, M. A. Pani, J. E. Van Autreve, F. K. Gorus, B. J. Van der Auwera

—to: Pani MA, Van Autreve J, Van der Auwera BJ, Gorus FK, Badenhoop K (2002) Non-transmitted maternal HLA DQ2 or DQ8 alleles and risk of Type 1 diabetes in offspring: the importance of foetal or post partum exposure to diabetogenic molecules. Diabetologia 45:1340–1343

A. P. Lambert, K. M. Gillespie, P. J. Bingley, E. A. M. Gale

Diabetes in the young: a paediatric and epidemiological perspective

G. Soltész

EASD New Section April 2003