Corneal confocal microscopy detects early nerve regeneration in diabetic neuropathy after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation

Diabetes

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 254-260

  Tavakoli, Mitra ^a   Mitu Pretorian, Maria ^b   Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Fadavi, Hassan ^a   Asghar, Omar ^a   Alam, Uazman ^a   Ponirakis, Georgios ^a   Jeziorska, Maria ^a   Marshall, Andy ^b   Efron, Nathan ^c   Boulton, Andrew J ^a   Augustine, Titus ^b   Malik, Rayaz A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAEPIDERMAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SURAL NERVE;

ADULT; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84872025537     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db12-0574     Document Type: Article

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