Diabetologia

The time has come to target connective tissue growth factor in diabetic complications

S. M. Twigg, M. E. Cooper

Acarbose for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance: facts and interpretations concerning the critical analysis of the STOP-NIDDM Trial data

J.-L. Chiasson, R. G. Josse, R. Gomis, M. Hanefeld, A. Karasik, M. Laakso

Response to Chiasson et al.: Acarbose for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance: facts and interpretations concerning the critical analysis of the STOP-NIDDM Trial data

P. T. Sawicki, T. Kaiser

Physiological hyperinsulinaemia increases intramuscular microvascular reactive hyperaemia and vasomotion in healthy volunteers

R. T. de Jongh, A. D. H. Clark, R. G. IJzerman, E. H. Serné, G. de Vries, C. D. A. Stehouwer

Potent activation of multiple signalling pathways by C-peptide in opossum kidney proximal tubular cells

N. M. Al-Rasheed, F. Meakin, E. L. Royal, A. J. Lewington, J. Brown, G. B. Willars, N. J. Brunskill

Human pancreatic duct cells can produce tumour necrosis factor-α that damages neighbouring beta cells and activates dendritic cells

B. Movahedi, M. Van de Casteele, N. Caluwé, G. Stangé, K. Breckpot, K. Thielemans, G. Vreugdenhil, C. Mathieu, D. Pipeleers

Effects of metoprolol on QT interval and QT dispersion in Type 1 diabetic patients with abnormal albuminuria

E. Ebbehøj, H. Arildsen, K. W. Hansen, C. E. Mogensen, H. Mølgaard, P. L. Poulsen

Supplementation with trans10cis12-conjugated linoleic acid induces hyperproinsulinaemia in obese men: close association with impaired insulin sensitivity

U. Risérus, B. Vessby, P. Arner, B. Zethelius

Factors associated with progression to macroalbuminuria in microalbuminuric Type 1 diabetic patients: the EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study

F. Giorgino, L. Laviola, P. Cavallo Perin, B. Solnica, J. Fuller, N. Chaturvedi

Interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α are not increased in patients with Type 2 diabetes: evidence that plasma interleukin-6 is related to fat mass and not insulin responsiveness

A. L. Carey, C. R. Bruce, M. Sacchetti, M. J. Anderson, D. B. Olsen, B. Saltin, J. A. Hawley, M. A. Febbraio

Early vitamin E supplementation attenuates diabetes-associated vascular dysfunction and the rise in protein kinase C-β in mesenteric artery and ameliorates wall stiffness in femoral artery of Wistar rats

S. J. Wigg, M. Tare, J. Forbes, M. E. Cooper, M. C. Thomas, H. A. Coleman, H. C. Parkington, R. C. O’Brien

Nerve growth factor promotes reparative angiogenesis and inhibits endothelial apoptosis in cutaneous wounds of Type 1 diabetic mice

G. Graiani, C. Emanueli, E. Desortes, S. Van Linthout, A. Pinna, C. D. Figueroa, L. Manni, P. Madeddu

Nerve growth factor supplementation reverses the impairment, induced by Type 1 diabetes, of hindlimb post-ischaemic recovery in mice

M. B. Salis, G. Graiani, E. Desortes, R. B. Caldwell, P. Madeddu, C. Emanueli

Insulin sensitivity and secretion in normal children related to size at birth, postnatal growth, and plasma insulin-like growth factor-I levels

K. K. Ong, C. J. Petry, P. M. Emmett, M. S. Sandhu, W. Kiess, C. N. Hales, A. R. Ness, D. B. Dunger

Diabetes mellitus and risk of prostate cancer: a meta-analysis

S. Bonovas, K. Filioussi, A. Tsantes

Large-scale studies of the HphI insulin gene variable-number-of-tandem-repeats polymorphism in relation to Type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin release

S. K. Hansen, A. P. Gjesing, S. K. Rasmussen, C. Glümer, S. A. Urhammer, G. Andersen, C. S. Rose, T. Drivsholm, S. K. Torekov, D. P. Jensen, C. T. Ekstrøm, K. Borch-Johnsen, T. Jørgensen, M. I. McCarthy, T. Hansen, O. Pedersen

11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase Type 1: genetic polymorphisms are associated with Type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians independently of obesity and expression in adipocyte and muscle

S. Nair, Y. H. Lee, R. S. Lindsay, B. R. Walker, P. A. Tataranni, C. Bogardus, L. J. Baier, P. A. Permana

Enhanced insulin secretion and cholesterol metabolism in congenic strains of the spontaneously diabetic (Type 2) Goto Kakizaki rat are controlled by independent genetic loci in rat chromosome 8

R. H. Wallis, K. J. Wallace, S. C. Collins, M. McAteer, K. Argoud, M. T. Bihoreau, P. J. Kaisaki, D. Gauguier

Nelfinavir-induced insulin resistance is associated with impaired plasma membrane recruitment of the PI 3-kinase effectors Akt/PKB and PKC-ζ

R. Ben-Romano, A. Rudich, A. Tirosh, R. Potashnik, T. Sasaoka, K. Riesenberg, F. Schlaeffer, N. Bashan

Expression of fatty-acid-handling proteins in human adipose tissue in relation to obesity and insulin resistance

K. Gertow, K. H. Pietiläinen, H. Yki-Järvinen, J. Kaprio, A. Rissanen, P. Eriksson, A. Hamsten, R. M. Fisher

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ gene polymorphisms and restenosis in diabetic patients after stenting in coronary arteries

W. Koch, V. Jung, N. von Beckerath, A. Schömig, A. Kastrati

Identification of a new case of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1β mutation with highly varied phenotypes

N. Shihara, Y. Horikawa, T. Onishi, M. Ono, K. Kashimada, J. Takeda

BABYDIET, a feasibility study to prevent the appearance of islet autoantibodies in relatives of patients with Type 1 diabetes by delaying exposure to gluten

S. Schmid, D. Buuck, A. Knopff, E. Bonifacio, A. G. Ziegler

EASD News Section June 2004