The Pathology of the Endocrine Pancreas in Diabetes

ISBN-13: 9783642726934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Pierre J. Lefebvre; Daniel G. Pipeleers

Opis

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 lesions and mor phologic alterations in the pancreatic islets of diabetic patients, but the patho physiologic basis of their findings remained long obscure. The systematic mi croscopic work of WILLY GEPTS clarified the views and related the variety in histopathology to differences in origin, duration and clinical expression of the disease. Over the past two decades, the concept of a multifactorial origin of diabetes has become widely accepted. Various agents and mechanisms have been identified which can lead to a quantitative or qualitative deficit in pancre atic B-cells. The purpose of this book is to bring an update on the many path ways which may induce an absolute or relative insufficiency in insulin release and hence a diabetic state. Rather than bringing a complete account on all re search relevant to the understanding of the pathology of the diabetic pancreas, the authors of the various chapters of this volume have focussed on selected processes which can impair B-cell function, survival or regeneration."

Spis treści

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.