Correction to: Non-autoimmune acute-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus newly developed in an elderly patient presenting elevation of serum pancreatic exocrine enzymes.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s13340-021-00535-0.].

Non-autoimmune acute-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus newly developed in an elderly patient presenting elevation of serum pancreatic exocrine enzymes.

An 82 year-old female patient not suffering from diabetes was transported to our hospital with hyperglycemia (HbA1c 8.2%, blood glucose 584 mg/dL) and mildly increased levels of pancreatic exocrine enzymes (amylase 543 IU/L, lipase 59 U/L, elastase-1 479 ng/dL), while there were no findings indicating pancreatitis. Under a diagnosis of new-onset diabetes, she was discharged with oral hypoglycemic agents, as retention of insulin secretion function [blood glucose 117 mg/dL, serum connecting peptide immunoreactivity (CPR) 1.

Low muscle quality in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients with visceral fat accumulation.

Background: Although obesity-related type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and sarcopenia in the elderly have been increasing worldwide, the associations among visceral fat accumulation, skeletal muscle indices (mass, strength, and quality) and cardiovascular diseases in T2DM remain poorly investigated.

Methods: We enrolled 183 Japanese T2DM inpatients (126 men, 57 women; mean age 64.7 ± 12.

[Successful gemcitabine-nedaplatin therapy in a hemodialysis patient with ureteral carcinoma after bilateral nephroureterectomy].

A 79-year-old male, who received hemodialysis due to bilateral nephroureterectomy and cysto-prostateurethrectomy. Five months later, an enlarged lymph node was found in the left of inguinal area. Abdominal computed tomography revealed a low density mass from the para-aortic lymph node to the left of inguinal area, suggesting lymph node metastasis of ureteral carcinoma.

Asp177 in C4 domain of mouse sphingosine kinase 1a is important for the sphingosine recognition.

Sphingosine kinase (SK) is the enzyme that catalyzes the formation of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P). Although diverse biological functions have been reported for SK, its recognition site for its substrate sphingosine (Sph) is still unclear. We constructed various mutants of mouse sphingosine kinase 1a (mSK1a), carrying mutations in the C4 domain, which we had expected to encompass the Sph-binding site.