...Mariagrazia Granata; Evangelia Skarmoutsou; Chiara Trovato; Giulio A. Rossi; Maria Clorinda Mazzarino; Fabio D'Amico Obesity, type 1 diabetes, and psoriasis are wide-ranging health problems. Genetics, epigenetics, and environmental factors together with immune disturbances are involved...

...Rajesh A. Pareta; Alan C. Farney; Emmanuel C. Opara Islet transplantation has been shown to be a viable treatment option for patients afflicted with type 1 diabetes. However, the lack of availablity of human pancreases and the need to use risky immunosuppressive drugs to prevent transplant...

...Ruth Silberberg Intervertebral discs and vertebral spongiosa of diabetic and nondiabetic sand rats were investigated histologically and morphometrically. In diabetic animals, degeneration of the intervertebral discs was accelerated. Morphometrically, there was a consistent trend in the diabetics...

...Ruth Silberberga; Jonathan H. Adler; William Meier-Ruge Weanling sand rats (Psammomys obesus) develop hyperinsulinemia or diabetes or both, if fed a standard laboratory diet without a supplement of fiber rich salt bush. The annuli fibrosi of hyperinsulinemic or diabetic animals, which are still...

... fibrosus of the Sand Rat (Psammomys obesus) R. Silberberg, W. Meier-Ruge, B. Odermall Departments of Pathology. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Israel, and Universities of Basel and Zürich. Switzerland Key Words. Fibronectin Annulus fibrosus Diabetes Sand rats Abstract. Fibronectin stains were carried...

...Max Aufdermaur; Kurt Fehr; Peggy Lesker; Ruth Silberberg A comparison of the nuclei pulposi of 4 diabetic and 2 nondiabetic subjects disclosed a statistically significant decrease in hexosamine, a statistically significant increase of hydroxyproline, and significantly increased activities of four...

...A. Vignaud; F. Ramond; C. Hourdé; A. Keller; G. Butler-Browne; A. Ferry It is of common knowledge that diabetes decreases skeletal muscle contractility and induces atrophy. However, how hyperglycemia and insulin deficiency modify muscle mass and neuromuscular recovery after muscle injury...

...Bryan L. Garris; David R. Garris Objective: Digital chemospectrophotographic (DCSP) microscopic analysis and evaluation methodology applicable for enhanced cytopathological analysis of diabetes-induced, cytohyperlipidemia-associated cellular involution in endometrial epithelial and stromal tissues...