Focus on Diabetes Mellitus Research

Preface; The Influence of Pregnancy on Diabetic Retinopathy; Two Urine Oxidative Stress Markers and High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein with Type 2 Diabetes Effects of Pioglitazone Treatment; Cardiovascular Complications in Diabetic Patients -- Pathogenesis, Management and Prevention; Diabetic Heart Disease: Should we Screen for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; Gut Neuroendocrine System in Diabetes Gastroenteropathy: Possible Role in Pathophysiology and Clinical Implications; Diabetes as a Thrombophilic Syndrome: Potential Role of Glycation and Oxidation in Impaired Fibrinolysis; The Role of TGF-ss1 and Myofibroblast Transformation in Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis in Diabetic Nephropathy; Fatty Acid Transport and Membrane Transporters in Obesity and Diabetes; The Seeds are Sown in Childhood Insulin and the Global Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes; Dietary Vacuolar -- ATPase Inhibitors as an Environmental Trigger of Type 1 Diabetes; Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV/CD26: Structure-Function, Regulation of Metabolism and T-cells; Mechanism of Action Involved in the Antidiabetic Effects of PPAR? Agonists; Medicinal Plants of India with Antihyperglycemic/Hypoglycemic Potential; Using Interactive Health Technologies to Support Diabetes Self-Care; Index.