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Understanding childhood diabetes mellitus: new pathophysiological aspects.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2018
Grulich-Henn Juergen, Klose Daniela
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is not a single disease, but several pathophysiological conditions where synthesis, release, and/or action of insulin are disturbed. A progressive autoimmune/autoinflammatory destruction of islet cells is still considered the main pathophysiological event in the development of T1DM, but there is evidence that T1DM itself is a heterogeneous disease. More than 50 gene regions are closely...
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