Gastric mucosal nerve density: A biomarker for diabetic autonomic neuropathy?

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 973-981

  Selim, M M ^a   Wendelschafer Crabb, G ^a   Redmon, J B ^b   Khoruts, A ^b   Hodges, J S ^c   Koch, K ^d,e   Walk, D ^a   Kennedy, W R ^a  

^a Departments of Neurology   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c Division of Biostatistics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE MARKER; EYE; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSAL NERVE DENSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN NERVE; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH GLAND; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PARESIS; COMPLICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROPARESIS; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; STOMACH EMPTYING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROPARESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN;

EID: 77957281294     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f25f19     Document Type: Article

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