Epidermal axonal swellings in painful and painless diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 505-513

  Cheung, Audrey ^a   Podgorny, Peter ^a   Martinez, Jose A ^a   Chan, Cynthia ^a   Toth, Cory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axonal swellings; Diabetic peripheral neuropathy; Epidermal skin biopsy; Neuropathic pain; Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN SEVERITY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; AGED; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; NEURALGIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURALGIA; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84925388848     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24351     Document Type: Article

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