Diabetes in the new millennium
By: edited by Umberto Di Mario ... [et. al].
Contributors: Di Mario, Umberto.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chichester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Diabetes.; Diabetes Mellitus.; Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Animal models of Type 1 diabetes: concordances, discordances, lessons; title: Ch. 2. The natural history of insulitis in autoimmune diabetes; title: Ch. 3. New genetic markers; title: Ch. 4. Restoring self tolerance in diabetics; title: Ch. 5. Tolerance induction for prevention of Type 1 diabetes; title: Ch. 6. Clinical trials in pre-diabetes: an overview; title: Ch. 7. Intensive insulin therapy in Type 1 diabetes; title: Ch. 8. Islet cell transplantation in Type-1 diabetes; title: Ch. 9. New hope from organ and tissue transplantation in diabetic patients; title: Ch. 10. Insulin resistance versus insulin deficiency: which one comes first? the old question revisited; title: Ch. 11. Pathophysiological mechanisms of Type 2 diabetes; title: Ch. 12. Molecular basis of insulin resitance; title: Ch. 13. Role of membrane glycoprotein Pc-1 in the etiology of insulin resistance; title: Ch. 14. Insulin and its receptor in growth promotion; title: Ch. 15. Lipid metabolism in Type 2 diabetes; title: Ch. 16. Evidence-based therapy of Type 2 diabetes; title: Ch. 17. Management of Type 2 diabetes: lessons from UKPDS and other trials; title: Ch. 18. From metabolic disorder to diabetic complications; title: Ch. 19. Hyperglycemic pseudohypoxia and hypoxia in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications; title: Ch. 20. Hyperglycaemia and endothelial dysfunction; title: Ch. 21. Cell-to-cell communication abnormalities in the diabetic milieu; title: Ch. 22. Predictors of cardiovascular mortality in Type 2 diabetes background; title: Ch. 23. The pathophysiology of hypertension in diabetes microvascular complications; title: Ch. 24. Dystal by-pass and endoluminal revascularization in diabetic patients with limb threatening ischemia; title: Ch. 25. New and conventional therapeutic measures in diabetic complications studies in nephropathy, cardiovascular disease and hypertension; title: Ch. 26. Pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy; title: Ch. 27. Pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy: role of estrogens; title: Ch. 28. Pathophysiology of diabetic neuropathy: a worrying report; title: Ch. 29. Diagnosis and treatment of diabetic neuropathy; title: Ch. 30. Diabetic complications in pregnancy; title: Ch. 31. Impact of pancreas/islet transplantation on the course of diabetic complications.