Pancreatic beta and alpha cells are both decreased in patients with fulminant type 1 diabetes: A morphometrical assessment

Diabetologia

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1560-1564

  Sayama, K ^a   Imagawa, A ^a,b   Okita, K ^a   Uno, S ^a   Moriwaki, M ^c   Kozawa, J ^a   Iwahashi, H ^a   Yamagata, K ^a   Tamura, S ^a   Matsuzawa, Y ^d   Hanafusa, T ^b   Miyagawa, J ^a   Shimomura, I ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Minoh City Hospital   (Japan)

^d SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha cell; Biopsy; Fas; Fas ligand; Fulminant type 1 diabetes; Human; Immunohistochemistry; Morphometry; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOPSY; CELL DESTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE CELL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD95; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; KETO ACIDS; KETOSIS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE;

EID: 23844485949     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1829-9     Document Type: Article

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