Diabetic Polyneuropathy: The Importance of Insulin Deficiency, Hyperglycemia and Alterations in Myoinositol Metabolism in Its Pathogenesis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 295, Issue 25, 1976, Pages 1416-1421

  Bleich, Howard L ^a   Boro, Emily S ^a   Winegrad, Albert I ^a   Greene, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FRUCTOSE; INOSITOL; INSULIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; SORBITOL;

CATARACT; DEMYELINATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCURONATE SODIUM; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY; LENS; METABOLISM; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROPATHY; POLYOL PATHWAY; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INOSITOL; INSULIN; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0017051699     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197612162952507     Document Type: Review

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