Article
Mitochondrial diabetes mellitus--glucose-induced signaling defects and beta-cell loss.
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Oka Y, Katagiri H, Ishihara H, Asano T, Kikuchi M, Kobayashi T
Abstract excerpt
Japanese diabetic patients whose mothers were also diabetic were screened, using peripheral leukocytes, for an A to G transition at nucleotide pair 3243 of the mitochondrial gene, a tRNA(Leu)(UUR) mutation. This mutation was identified in four pedigrees from among 300 unrelated patients. Diabetes...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Female
- Glucose
- Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
- Humans
- Hypoglycemic Agents
