Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AGEs: Advanced Glycation End-products; ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species; DM: Diabetes Mellitus; RAGE: Receptors of AGEs; HLA: Human Leucocyte Antigen; GDM: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus; MODY: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young; SMBG: Self Monitoring Blood Glucose; HAS: Human Serum Albumin; HMA: Human Mercaptalbumin; PCO: Protein Carbon...

AIMS Gestational diabetes mellitus affects approximately 7% of all pregnant women. Some of these women develop autoantibodies that are generally characteristic of Type 1 diabetes. Autoantibodies targeting glutamic acid decarboxylase and tyrosine phosphatase-like protein are the most frequently reported. A recently identified autoantigen in Type 1 diabetes is zinc transporter 8. Some reports sug...

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common medical complications in pregnancy, which is associated with many serious consequences for mother and her fetus. Body mass index (BMI) in pregnant women is considered as one of most effective factor for the incidence of GDM. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between BMI at pregnant women in the early...

BACKGROUND Neonatal diabetes mellitus is a rare condition. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A small for gestational age male, presented with neonatal onset diabetes mellitus, duodenal atresia, annular pancreas and gall bladder hypoplasia. OBSERVATION Observation: A novel homozygous mutation p.K163R (c.488A>G) in the PDX1 gene was found. Parents were heterozygous for the same. MESSAGE This case highli...

Vitamin D is an important secosteroid hormone in skeletal and non-skeletal systems. Vitamin D has relevance to muscle and immune function, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and pregnancy because vitamin D receptors (VDR) are present in many non-skeletal tissues. Vitamin D acts on target tissues via the binding of its active form to VDR. As vitamin D affects not only bone metabolism but a...