Pancreas Procurement and Preservation for Islet Transplantation: Personal Considerations by Hirofumi Noguchi

“…Pancreatic islet transplantation is a promising option for the treatment of type 1 diabetic patients. After the successful demonstration of the Edmonton protocol, islet transplantation has advanced significantly on several fronts, including improved pancreas procurement and preservation systems. …”
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Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Associated with Central Nervous System Involvement in an Adult by Tommy L. H. Chan, Ana M. Cartagena, Anne Marie Bombassaro, Seyed M. Hosseini-Moghaddam

“…We describe a 55-year-old diabetic female who presented with gait ataxia, right peripheral facial palsy, and painful vesicular lesions involving her right ear. …”
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A Simple Method for Establishing Adherent Ex Vivo Explant Cultures from Human Eye Pathologies for Use in Subsequent Calcium Imaging and Inflammatory Studies by Sofija Andjelic, Xhevat Lumi, Zoltán Veréb, Natasha Josifovska, Andrea Facskó, Marko Hawlina, Goran Petrovski

“…Anterior lens capsule-lens epithelial cells (aLC-LECs) from cataract surgery and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) fibrovascular epiretinal membranes (fvERMs) from human eyes were used in the study. …”
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Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…In this case, a patient with a history of odynophagia, sore throat, productive cough, weight loss, and abnormalities on chest radiograph presented with sepsis and diabetic ketoacidosis. During admission, the patient underwent bronchoscopy with resulting tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage samples positive for Coccidioides immitis, later supported by confirmatory serum studies. …”
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Autophagy in Immune-Related Renal Disease by Xin Ye, Xu-jie Zhou, Hong Zhang

“…Here, we provide an overview of the pathological role of autophagy in IRRDs, including lupus nephritis, IgA nephropathy, membrane nephropathy, ANCA-associated nephritis, and diabetic nephropathy. The understanding of the pathogenesis and regulatory mechanisms of autophagy in these renal diseases may lead to the identification of new diagnostic targets and refined therapeutic modulation.…”
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Moving from an “anti-aging” paradigm toward the concept of “disease-free aging”: the role of senolytics in modern medicine by Ivan Aprahamian, Andréia Pain, Virgílio Garcia Moreira

“…Senolytic therapy requires strong evidence in human trials, and dasatinib and quercetin have shown good results in phase II trials with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and diabetic renal disease. However, these trials are small and merely represent a proof-of-concept for these drugs. …”
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Panspinal Epidural Abscess: A Devastating Complication of Group B Streptococcal Bacteremia by Rehmat Ullah Awan, Ambreen Nabeel, Mohammed Alsaggaf

“…We describe a case who presented with diabetic lower extremity wounds; however, soon the patient developed bowel and bladder incontinence in the setting of back pain, secondary to panspinal epidural abscess. …”
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The Antibiotic Puzzle: Guidelines for the Family Physician by G Harding, S Field, R MacMahon, T Louie, Prairie Consensus Conference Group

“…A consensus conference was held in October 1996 to discuss appropriate guidelines for antibiotic recommendations for common adult respiratory, urinary tract and diabetic foot infections. In August 1997, the guidelines were reviewed and updated as part of a second meeting of the group on antimicrobial resistance. …”
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Three cases of pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia mimicking squamous cell carcinoma of the foot: A case series by M. Arulselvan, Trishna Vaishali Muthurathinam

“…The third case, a 58-year-old man with diabetic foot ulcer with verrucous growth over the toes. …”
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Prognostic and Diagnostic Value of Endocan in Kidney Diseases by Elisabeth Samouilidou, Virginia Athanasiadou, Eirini Grapsa

“…It seems that the determination of plasma endocan levels may provide useful prognostic information in many types of renal failure such as chronic kidney disease, IgA nephropathy, and diabetic nephropathy. Endocan could additionally improve the early diagnostic evaluation of acute kidney disease, chronic renal allograft injury, and acute rejection after kidney transplantation, thus contributing to endothelial cell injury monitoring in a timely manner.…”
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The Timing of Infarction Pain in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction after Previous Revascularization by Predrag M. Mitrovic, Branislav Stefanovic, Zorana Vasiljevic, Mina Radovanovic, Nebojsa Radovanovic, Gordana Krljanac, Dubravka Rajic, Predrag Erceg, Vladan Vukcevic, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Miodrag Ostojic

“…However, analyzing a different subgroup of patients with AMI after previous CABG, it was found that some subgroups had two peaks of onset, but a higher evening peak (patients older than 70 years of age, smokers, diabetics, and a group of patients who were taking beta-blocker therapy). …”
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Research Progress in Natural Sources, Biosynthesis and Metabolism Regulation of Rutin in Plant-Derived Food Materials by ZHOU Ting, WANG Haige, ZHANG Jixing, BAO Yingcai, YU Yongli, CHANG Jie

“…It possesses various pharmacological and physiological activities, including antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and anti-cancer properties. With the deepening of pharmacological and physiological research on rutin, plant-derived foods rich in it have garnered significant research attention in the food industry. …”
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Does Fundus Fluorescein Angiography Procedure Affect Ocular Pulse Amplitude? by Gökhan Pekel, Semra Acer, Ramazan Yagci, Ebru Nevin Cetin, Mehmet Can Hiraali, Hüseyin Kaya

“…Sixty eyes of 30 nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy patients (15 males, 15 females) were included in this cross-sectional case series. …”
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Cross-Talk between PPARγ and Insulin Signaling and Modulation of Insulin Sensitivity by Anna Leonardini, Luigi Laviola, Sebastio Perrini, Annalisa Natalicchio, Francesco Giorgino

“…PPARγ activation in type 2 diabetic patients results in a marked improvement in insulin and glucose parameters, resulting from an improvement of whole-body insulin sensitivity. …”
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Management of Ocular Diseases Using Lutein and Zeaxanthin: What Have We Learned from Experimental Animal Studies? by Chunyan Xue, Richard Rosen, Adrienne Jordan, Dan-Ning Hu

“…The effects of lutein and zeaxanthin on the prevention and treatment of various eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and cataract, ischemic/hypoxia induced retinopathy, light damage of the retina, retinitis pigmentosa, retinal detachment, and uveitis, have been studied in different experimental animal models. …”
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Biomimetic insulin-imprinted polymer nanoparticles as a potential oral drug delivery system by Paul Pijush Kumar, Treetong Alongkot, Suedee Roongnapa

“…The obtained MIPs exhibited a high adsorption capacity for the target insulin, which showed a significantly higher release of insulin in solution at pH 7.4 than at pH 1.2. In vivo studies on diabetic Wistar rats showed that the fast onset within 2 h is similar to subcutaneous injection with a maximum at 4 h, giving an engaged function responsible for the duration of glucose reduction for up to 24 h. …”
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Pulmonary tuberculosis in a patient with the tennis racket sign. A case report by Irene Estefania Delgado Pérez, Marileydis Almaguel García, José Sánchez Prieto

“…The 52-years-old patient, discharged as a group III adult, at risk of pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertensive and diabetic, was treated at her family doctor's office due to physical discomfort, productive and persistent cough mainly at night, anorexia and asthenia. …”
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Proteomic Analyses of the Vitreous Humour by Martina Angi, Helen Kalirai, Sarah E. Coupland, Bertil E. Damato, Francesco Semeraro, Mario R. Romano

“…In the last decade, proteomics analyses have been performed to characterise the proteome of the human VH and explore networks of functionally related proteins, providing insight into the aetiology of diabetic retinopathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. …”
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Iron and ferroptosis in kidney disease: molecular and metabolic mechanisms by Wenjie Wang, Jingdi Chen, Liying Zhan, Handong Zou, Lu Wang, Mengmeng Guo, Hang Gao, Jing Xu, Wei Wu

“…Over the past decade, ferroptosis’ role in mediating the development and progression of renal disorders, such as acute kidney injury (renal ischemia-reperfusion injury, drug-induced acute kidney injury, severe acute pancreatitis induced acute kidney injury and sepsis-associated acute kidney injury), chronic kidney disease (diabetic nephropathy, renal fibrosis, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease) and renal cell carcinoma, has come into focus. …”
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MicroRNAs in Postischemic Vascular Repair by Andrea Caporali, Costanza Emanueli

“…In adulthood, angiogenesis is activated as a reparative process during wound healing and following ischemia, and it plays a key role in tumor growth and metastasis as well as in inflammatory diseases and diabetic retinopathy. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous, small, noncoding RNAs that negatively control gene expression of target mRNAs. …”
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