Diabetologia

Amputation as a marker of the quality of foot care in diabetes

W. J. Jeffcoate, W. H. van Houtum

Acute effects of glucose and insulin on vascular endothelium

D. Taubert, A. Rosenkranz, R. Berkels, R. Roesen, E. Schömig

Antioxidative treatment prevents activation of death-receptor- and mitochondrion-dependent apoptosis in the hearts of diabetic rats

J. Bojunga, D. Nowak, P. S. Mitrou, D. Hoelzer, S. Zeuzem, K. U. Chow

Characterisation of glucose transporters in the intact coronary artery endothelium in rats: GLUT-2 upregulated by long-term hyperglycaemia

N. Gaudreault, D. R. L. Scriven, E. D. W. Moore

Chronic exposure to high glucose impairs bradykinin-stimulated nitric oxide production by interfering with the phospholipase-C-implicated signalling pathway in endothelial cells: evidence for the involvement of protein kinase C

Y. Tang, G. D. Li

Fenofibrate modifies human vascular smooth muscle proteoglycans and reduces lipoprotein binding

J. Nigro, M. L. Ballinger, R. J. Dilley, G. L. R. Jennings, T. N. Wight, P. J. Little

Effect of type 2 diabetes on various electrophoretic characteristics of low-density lipoprotein particles in women

P. Blackburn, I. Lemieux, B. Lamarche, J. Bergeron, P. Perron, G. Tremblay, D. Gaudet, J.-P. Després

Prediction of the risk of cardiovascular mortality using a score that includes glucose as a risk factor. The DECODE Study

Joint role of non-HDL cholesterol and glycated haemoglobin in predicting future coronary heart disease events among women with type 2 diabetes

M. B. Schulze, I. Shai, J. E. Manson, T. Li, N. Rifai, R. Jiang, F. B. Hu

Type 2 diabetes and risk of non-embolic ischaemic stroke in Japanese men and women

H. Iso, H. Imano, A. Kitamura, S. Sato, Y. Naito, T. Tanigawa, T. Ohira, K. Yamagishi, M. Iida, T. Shimamoto

Coffee consumption and glucose tolerance status in middle-aged Japanese men

T. Yamaji, T. Mizoue, S. Tabata, S. Ogawa, K. Yamaguchi, E. Shimizu, M. Mineshita, S. Kono

Coffee consumption and incidence of impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, and type 2 diabetes: the Hoorn Study

R. M. van Dam, J. M. Dekker, G. Nijpels, C. D. A. Stehouwer, L. M. Bouter, R. J. Heine

Neonatal diabetes, with hypoplastic pancreas, intestinal atresia and gall bladder hypoplasia: search for the aetiology of a new autosomal recessive syndrome

J. Mitchell, Z. Punthakee, B. Lo, C. Bernard, K. Chong, C. Newman, L. Cartier, V. Desilets, E. Cutz, I. L. Hansen, P. Riley, C. Polychronakos

Analysis of the contribution to type 2 diabetes susceptibility of sequence variation in the gene encoding stearoyl-CoA desaturase, a key regulator of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism

C. F. Liew, C. J. Groves, S. Wiltshire, E. Zeggini, T. M. Frayling, K. R. Owen, M. Walker, G. A. Hitman, J. C. Levy, S. O’Rahilly, A. T. Hattersley, D. G. Johnston, M. I. McCarthy

Common polymorphisms of the PPAR-γ2 (Pro12Ala) and PGC-1α (Gly482Ser) genes are associated with the conversion from impaired glucose tolerance to type 2 diabetes in the STOP-NIDDM trial

L. Andrulionytè, J. Zacharova, J.-L. Chiasson, M. Laakso

Gene expression profiles during beta cell maturation and after IL-1β exposure reveal important roles of Pdx-1 and Nkx6.1 for IL-1β sensitivity

K. Nielsen, M. Kruhøffer, T. Ørntoft, T. Sparre, H. Wang, C. Wollheim, M. C. Jørgensen, J. Nerup, A. E. Karlsen

Correlation of syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25 clusters with docking and fusion of insulin granules analysed by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

M. Ohara-Imaizumi, C. Nishiwaki, Y. Nakamichi, T. Kikuta, S. Nagai, S. Nagamatsu

Effects of lipase inhibition on gastric emptying of, and on the glycaemic, insulin and cardiovascular responses to, a high-fat/carbohydrate meal in type 2 diabetes

D. O’Donovan, M. Horowitz, A. Russo, C. Feinle-Bisset, N. Murolo, D. Gentilcore, J. M. Wishart, H. A. Morris, K. L. Jones

Thiazolidinediones improve insulin sensitivity in adipose tissue and reduce the hyperlipidaemia without affecting the hyperglycaemia in a transgenic model of type 2 diabetes

H. Kim, M. Haluzik, O. Gavrilova, S. Yakar, J. Portas, H. Sun, U. B. Pajvani, P. E. Scherer, D. LeRoith

Local methacholine but not bradykinin potentiates insulin-mediated glucose uptake in muscle in vivo by augmenting capillary recruitment

H. Mahajan, S. M. Richards, S. Rattigan, M. G. Clark

High-dose thiamine therapy counters dyslipidaemia in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

R. Babaei-Jadidi, N. Karachalias, C. Kupich, N. Ahmed, P. J. Thornalley

Insulin resistance is a risk factor for progression to Type 1 diabetes

S. Fourlanos, P. Narendran, G. B. Byrnes, P. G. Colman, L. C. Harrison

The Gly1057Asp polymorphism in IRS-2 interacts with obesity to affect beta cell function

N. Stefan, A. Fritsche, F. Machicao, O. Tschritter, H. U. Häring, M. Stumvoll

EASD News Section December 2004