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Early increase of oxidative stress and reduced antioxidant defenses in patients with uncomplicated type 1 diabetes: a case for gender difference.

Objective: Diabetes increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) to a greater extent in women than in men. We investigated whether type 1 diabetic patients with short duration of disease and without complications have an altered oxidative status and whether there are differences between men and women.

Research Design And Methods: We investigated oxidative status in 29 control subjects and 37 patients with uncomplicated type 1 diabetes with duration of 6 +/- 3 years.

Autoantibodies and endothelial dysfunction in well-controlled, uncomplicated insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients.

Patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) are well known to be at high risk of vascular disease, and dysfunction of vascular endothelium is considered as an early step in the development of diabetic complications. Because of the involvement of autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of IDDM, our aim was to assess, in 45 IDDM patients without clinically evident vascular complications, whether early signs of endothelial cell dysfunction were correlated to alterations of the immune system. IDDM patients were characterized by significantly increased serum levels of C-reactive protein, of polymorphonuclear cells-derived elastase, of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and of thrombomodulin, while plasma concentrations of fibronectin (FNT) were significantly decreased, with a statistically significant inverse correlation between ET-1 and FNT values.

Blunted erythropoietin response to anemia in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

Background: It is known that patients with renal failure have normochromic normocytic anemia due to impaired endogenous erythropoietin (EPO) synthesis. The aim of this work was to determine whether low serum erythropoietin (s-EPO) levels play a role in the pathogenesis of anemia in patients with Type 1 diabetes without overt nephropathy.

Methods: We included in the study 13 patients with Type 1 diabetes whose Hb levels were <11 g/dl.

Early renal involvement in diabetes mellitus: comparison of renal Doppler US and radioisotope evaluation of glomerular hyperfiltration.

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of Doppler ultrasonography (US) in the diagnosis of hyperfiltration in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).

Materials And Methods: Eighty-one consecutive patients with IDDM were studied. All patients were normotensive and had normal creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels.

Hyperfiltration in patients with type I diabetes mellitus: a prevalence study.

Aim: An increase in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal plasma flow (EFPR) may be considered as prognostic factors for the progression of diabetic nephropathy; however the real predicting value of hyperfiltration in the development of incipient and overt nephropathy is as yet unknown. We have examined the prevalence of hyperfiltration in a population of normotensive adult IDDM patients and the possible effect of long-term metabolic control on glomerular hemodynamics.

Materials And Methods: We measured GFR and ERPF values in 177 normotensive, normoalbuminuric insulin-dependent diabetic patients and in 30 healthy subjects by single bolus intravenous injection of 1 miroCu/kg [51Cr]-EDTA and 0.

Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism on progression of renal disease and the influence of ACE inhibition in IDDM patients: findings from the EUCLID Randomized Controlled Trial. EURODIAB Controlled Trial of Lisinopril in IDDM.

We examined whether the ACE gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism modulates renal disease progression in IDDM and how ACE inhibitors influence this relationship. The EURODIAB Controlled Trial of Lisinopril in IDDM is a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled trial in 530 nonhypertensive, mainly normoalbuminuric IDDM patients aged 20-59 years. Albumin excretion rate (AER) was measured every 6 months for 2 years.

Defective plasma antioxidant defenses and enhanced susceptibility to lipid peroxidation in uncomplicated IDDM.

Oxidative stress is postulated to be increased in patients with IDDM. Accumulating evidence suggests that oxidative cell injury caused by free radicals contributes to the development of IDDM complications. On the other side, a decreased efficiency of antioxidant defenses (both enzymatic and nonenzymatic) seems to correlate with the severity of pathological tissue changes in IDDM.

The preterm prediction study: maternal stress is associated with spontaneous preterm birth at less than thirty-five weeks' gestation. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network.

Objective: Our purpose was to determine whether various measures of poor psychosocial status in pregnancy are associated with spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, or low birth weight.

Study Design: Anxiety, stress, self-esteem, mastery, and depression were assessed at 25 to 29 weeks in 2593 gravid women by use of a 28-item Likert scale. Scores for each psychosocial subscale were determined, and an overall psychosocial score was calculated.

Postural variations of pulmonary diffusing capacity in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

Study Objective: To assess whether posture-related changes of diffusing capacity could be considered as an early sensitive marker of pulmonary abnormalities in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and whether the postural variations of pulmonary capillary blood volume (Vc) could reflect the lung capillary damage that characterizes the diabetic microangiopathy.

Design: Carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DCO) was measured by the single-breath method. Four DCO measurements, two in sitting and two in supine position, were performed in each subject using gas mixtures containing different oxygen concentrations.

NA+/K+ ATPase impairment and experimental glycation: the role of glucose autoxidation.

Non enzymatic glycation could be involved in the early impairment of Na+/K+ ATPase that occurs in sciatic nerve of diabetic rats. In fact, decrease of Na+/K+ ATPase activity is one of the first alterations showed in experimental diabetic neuropathy. In this respect, it is known that in the presence of transition metals under physiological conditions, glucose can autoxidize yielding hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and free radical intermediates, which, in turn, inhibit the cation pump.

Daily energy metabolism in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: We evaluated the daily energy balance and main substrate utilization in Type 1 insulin dependent diabetic patients and healthy volunteers.

Methods: Ten patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and eight healthy volunteers were studied. Diabetic patients were well controlled under intensive insulin treatment (0.

Effect of intensive treatment on diabetic nephropathy in patients with type I diabetes.

We evaluated the long-term effect of an intensive treatment of diabetic nephropathy (anti-hypertensive drugs, low protein diet, multiple insulin injections to achieve a good metabolic control) on glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and albumin excretion rate (AER). Fourteen type I diabetic patients (mean age 45 +/- 9.5 years, mean duration of diabetes 23.

Urinary kallikrein excretion in type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus.

Kidney haemodynamics appear to change after the early phases of diabetic nephropathy: increases in glomerular filtration rate and in renal plasma flow have been widely reported, while kidney size is increased. As the renal kallikrein-kinin system has been demonstrated to regulate kidney blood circulation, we have evaluated the excretion of urinary kallikrein in 87 Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients with and without hyperfiltration. Urinary kallikrein excretion was measured in 24-h urine collections.

Abnormal agonist-stimulated cardiac parasympathetic acetylcholine release in streptozocin-induced diabetes.

We examined the effect of three distinct depolarizing conditions on [3H]ACh release from cardiac postganglionic parasympathetic neurons in age-matched controls and insulin-treated STZ-induced diabetic rats to determine whether alterations in neurotransmitter release were present in the diabetic group. The effect of TTX, which exerts a use- and voltage-dependent block of sodium channels, was examined on the release of ACh stimulated by SRIF14 (preferentially acts at the cell body). We also studied the effect of STZ-induced diabetes on [3H]ACh release by the relatively site-specific depolarizing agent VT (preferentially acts at the axon) and high potassium (non-site-specific).

Lower limb arterio-venous shunts, autonomic neuropathy and diabetic foot.

We have quantitatively assessed the percentage of lower limb arterio-venous (a-v) shunting using a radioisotopic technique and correlated it with autonomic neuropathy evaluated by cardiovascular tests. We have studied three groups of diabetic patients: Group A, 12 non-neuropathic subjects without foot lesions; Group B, 12 neuropathic subjects without foot lesions; Group C, 12 neuropathic subjects with recurrent foot ulcers. Shunting was higher in Group C (10.

Charge selectivity of proteinuria in type I diabetes explored by Ig subclass clearance.

To investigate the role of protein charge in early diabetic proteinuria, the clearance of proteins differing in charge and/or size (anionic and cationic Igs, albumin) was evaluated in 98 insulin-dependent (type I) diabetic patients selected as a representative sample of the 418 patients attending our clinics. Of the patients, 12.9% were microalbuminuric and 4.

Acetylcholine release in experimental autonomic neuropathy.

Autonomic neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes. In this study we evaluated autonomic neuropathy by determining somatostatin (S-14)-evoked acetylcholine (Ach) release from postsynaptic parasympathetic fibers in the atria of controls (C) and streptozotocin diabetic rats (STZ-D), with and without tetrodotoxin (TTX). The release induced by S-14 did not differ in C and STZ-D.

Gastric emptying rate and hormonal response in type II diabetics.

Gastric emptying time was measured by ultrasonography in 18 NIDDM patients with and without autonomic neuropathy, evaluated by cardiovascular autonomic tests and in 10 controls before and after a physiologic test meal. Six neuropathic subjects showed gastrointestinal symptoms such as fullness and early satiety. Blood glucose, gastrin and pancreatic polypeptide were evaluated before and up to 200 min after the test meal.

Solubilization of somatostatin receptors in hamster pancreatic beta cells. Characterization as a glycoprotein interacting with a GTP-binding protein.

Somatostatin receptors of plasma membranes from beta cells of hamster insulinoma were covalently labelled with 125I-[Leu8,D-Trp22,Tyr25]somatostatin-28 (125I-somatostatin-28) and solubilized with the non-denaturing detergent Triton X-100. Analysis by SDS/PAGE and autoradiography revealed three specific 125I-somatostatin-28 receptor complexes with similar molecular masses (228 kDa, 128 kDa and 45 kDa) to those previously identified [Cotroneo, P., Marie, J.