Lessons from Animal Diabetes VI 75th Anniversary of the Insulin Discovery [Hardcover]

I Insulin Dependent Diabetes; B-Cell Function; B-Cell Destruction Mechanisms.- 1 Expression of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and its role as an autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes.- 2 Molecular genetics of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: Analysis of congenic strains.- 3 Role of macrophages and cytokines in B-cell death.- 4 Immunotherapy of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: Tolerance after short-term anti-Il-2 receptor/cyclosporine therapy in BB/OK rats.- 5 Role of retroviruses in the pathogenesis of diabetes with emphasis on the NOD mouse.- 6 Occurrence of pretype I diabetes (pre-IDDM) and type II diabetes (NIDDM) in BC1 [(NOD X Mus spretus) F1 X NOD] mice.- 7 Okamoto model for B-cell damage: Recent advances.- 8 Alloxan derivatives as a tool for the elucidation of the mechanism of the diabetogenic action of alloxan.- II Transgenic Animals In Diabetes Research.- 9 Role of glucokinase in regulation of insulin secretion: Lessons from transgenic mice.- 10 Consequences of human IAPP expression in transgenic mice.- 11 Immunostimulatory versus immunosuppressive roles of IL-10 in IDDM: Analysis with IL-10-producing transgenic NOD mice.- 12 Polyol accumulation versus diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy in transgenic mice expressing human aldose reductase.- 13 Transgenic hyperinsulinemia: A mouse model of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance without obesity.- III Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes: New Models And Update On Existing Models. Diabetes Complications And Therapeutic Modalities.- 14 Spontaneously diabetic rat OLETF as a model for NIDDM in humans.- 15 Glucose and lipid metabolism in the gold thioglucose injected mouse model of diabesity.- 16 Diabetes in the Chinese hamster.- 17 Studies on the pathogenesis of NIDDM in the GK (Goto-Kakizaki) rat.- 18 Role of immune and non-immune aspects of genetics in different expressions of diabetes in db/db mice.- 19 InositolsPotential roles in insulin action and in diabetes: Evidence from insulin-resistantl£"