The Pathology of the Endocrine Pancreas in Diabetes edited by Pierre J. Lefebvre, Daniel G. Pipeleers.

Diabetes mellitus represents one of the most frequent and serious clinical syn­ dromes in contemporary medicine. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the endocrine pancreas has been implicated in the pathogenesis of this disease. Several pathologists of the twentieth century detected various les...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lefebvre, Pierre J. (Editor), Pipeleers, Daniel G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1988.
Edition:1st ed. 1988.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Clinical Forms of Diabetes Mellitus
  • The Diabetic Pancreas: A Pathologist’s View
  • Insulitis in the Human Pancreas
  • Circulating Signs of Autoimmune Islet Disease
  • Immune Interactions with Islet Cells: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
  • Viral Interactions with Pancreatic B-Cells
  • Death of the Pancreatic B-Cell
  • Disturbed Growth of the Endocrine Pancreas
  • Islet Cell Replication and Diabetes
  • Islet Cell Tumors and Diabetes Mellitus
  • Insulin Secretion in Diabetes Mellitus
  • Possible Sites for Deficient Glucose Recognition in Islet Cells
  • Insulin Release and Islet Cell Junctions
  • Calcium Transport and Deficient Insulin Release
  • Autoimmune Diabetes in the BioBreeding/Worcester Rat
  • Rat Models of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Evidence that Mild Increases in Plasma Glucose Play an Important Role in Pathogenesis
  • Perspectives of Islet Cell Transplantation in Diabetes.