Advances of Diabetes Mellitus in East Asia

Plenary lectures: Clinical aspects of molecular studies in Chinese NIDDM, K. Xiang; Prevention of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), K. Kida et al; Prevalence of diabetes and its risk factors in China, X. Pan. Invited lecture: Gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess complicated with diabetes mellitus - a review of 50 cases reported in Japan, R. Takeda. Epidemiology: incidence of IDDM in Beijing of China, C. Yan, et al; Screening for diabetes in school children in Sendai, Y. Sato t al; Exploration of the clinical characters and diagnosis of latent onset IDDM in adults, X. Pan. Etiology and metabolism: GAD of islets - similarity to that of brain in response to GAD and GABA-T inhibitors, J. Katoh et al; Influences of human autoantibody to glutamic acid decarboxylase on cultured human fetal islet beta cells, J. Wang et al; Can nicotinamide improve insulin secretion in Japanese patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)? M. Yano et al; Association of mitochondria DNA 3394 (T-C) mutation with Chinese non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus , L. Ai et al; Studies on the molecular evolution of glucose transporters gene family, H. Wang et al; Insulin receptor and altered glucose transport in a monensin-resistant mutant of Chinese hamster ovary cell, T. Seguchi et al; The investigation on changes of activity of liver glycogen syntheses in experimental diabetes mellitus rats, Y. Wang et al; Effect of epinephrine on ketone body utilization in rat heart perfusion system, E. Ubukata et al; clinical evaluation of autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase and islet cell in the diagnosis of IDDM, L Xiu et al; A study on form and metabolic features in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, C. Wang et al; Serum IGF-1 level in diabetics and its relationship to late complications, M. Yu et al; Effects of high glucose on expression of fibronectin receptor production of cultured-human mesangial cells, Y. Deng et al. Insulin secretion: effect of synthetic peptide (P-15) on monolayer cell culture of neonatal rat pancreas, D. Huang et al; The relationship between the volume of pancreas in vivo and islet Beta-cell function on diabetes, Y. Shen et al; Poor capacity for proliferation of pancreatic Beta-cells in Otsuka-Long-Evans-Tokushima fatty rat, a model of spontaneous NIDDM, K. Shima, M. Zhu; Study on the possible mechanisms about the second control site of insulin-secretion in islet, C. XIAO, H. Shi; An experimental study of isolation and purification of adult porcine islet of Langerhans, D. Yu et al. Short-term effect of cyclosporin A on pancreatic islet cell function in normal and spontaneous diabetic Chinese hamster, Y. Wang et al. (Part contents).