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Farias VX, Macêdo FHP, Oquendo MB, Tomé AR, Báo SN, Cintra DOS, Santos CF, Albuquerque AAC, Heimark DB, Larner J, Fonteles MC, Leal-Cardoso JH, Nascimento NRF. Chronic treatment with D-chiro-inositol prevents autonomic and somatic neuropathy in STZ-induced diabetic mice. Diabetes Obes Metab 2011; 13:243-50. [PMID: 21205116 DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2010.01344.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIM D-chiro-inositol (DCI) has been shown to prevent and reverse endothelial dysfunction in diabetic rats and rabbits. The present study evaluates the preventive effect of DCI on experimental diabetic neuropathy (DN). METHODS Streptozotocin-induced (STZ) diabetic mice were treated by oral gavage for 60 days with DCI (20 mg/kg/12 h) or saline (NaCl 0.9%; 0.1 ml/10 g/12 h; Diab) and compared with euglycaemic groups treated with saline (0.1 ml/10 g/12 h; Eugly). We compared the response of the isolated sciatic nerve, corpora cavernosa or vas deferens to electrical stimulation. RESULTS The electrically evoked compound action potential of the sciatic nerve was greatly blunted by diabetes. The peak-to-peak amplitude (PPA) was decreased from 3.24 ± 0.7 to 0.9 ± 0.2 mV (p < 0.05), the conduction velocity (CV) of the first component was reduced from 46.78 ± 4.5 to 26.69 ± 3.8 ms (p < 0.05) and chronaxy was increased from 60.43 ± 1.9 to 69.67 ± 1.4 ms (p < 0.05). These parameters were improved in nerves from DCI-treated mice (p < 0.05). PPA in the DCI group was 5.79 ± 0.8 mV (vs. 0.9 ± 0.2 mV-Diab; p < 0.05) and CV was 45.91 ± 3.6 ms (vs. 26.69 ± 3.8 ms-Diab; p < 0.05). Maximal relaxation of the corpus cavernosum evoked by electrical stimulation (2-64 Hz) in the Diab group was 36.4 ± 3.8% compared to 65.4 ± 2.8% in Eugly and 59.3 ± 5.5% in the DCI group (p < 0.05). Maximal contraction obtained in the vas deferens was 38.0 ± 9.2% in Eugly and 11.5 ± 2.6% in Diab (decrease of 69.7%; p < 0.05), compared to 25.2 ± 2.3% in the DCI group (p < 0.05 vs. diabetic). Electron microscopy of the sciatic nerves showed prevention of neuronal damage. CONCLUSIONS DCI has a neuroprotective action in both autonomic and somatic nerves in STZ-induced DN.
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- V X Farias
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Superior Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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Uehara K, Yamagishi SI, Otsuki S, Chin S, Yagihashi S. Effects of polyol pathway hyperactivity on protein kinase C activity, nociceptive peptide expression, and neuronal structure in dorsal root ganglia in diabetic mice. Diabetes 2004; 53:3239-47. [PMID: 15561956 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.12.3239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We explored the specific impact of polyol pathway hyperactivity on dorsal root ganglia (DRG) using transgenic mice that overexpress human aldose reductase because DRG changes are crucial for the development of diabetic sensory neuropathy. Littermate mice served as controls. Half of the animals were made diabetic by streptozotocin injection and followed for 12 weeks. After diabetes onset, diabetic transgenic mice showed a significant elevation of pain sensation threshold after transient decrease and marked slowing of motor and sensory nerve conduction at the end of the study, while these changes were modest in diabetic littermate mice. Protein kinase C (PKC) activities were markedly reduced in diabetic transgenic mice, and the changes were associated with reduced expression of membrane PKC-alpha isoform that was translocated to cytosol. Membrane PKC-betaII isoform expression was contrariwise increased. Calcitonin gene-related peptide-and substance P-positive neurons were reduced in diabetic transgenic mice and less severely so in diabetic littermate mice. Morphometric analysis disclosed neuronal atrophy only in diabetic transgenic mice. Treatment with an aldose reductase inhibitor (fidarestat 4 mg x kg(-1) x day(-1), orally) corrected all of the changes detected in diabetic transgenic mice. These findings underscore the pathogenic role of aldose reductase in diabetic sensory neuropathy through the altered cellular signaling and peptide expressions in DRG neurons.
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- Kenji Uehara
- Department of Pathology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan
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Aragno M, Parola S, Brignardello E, Manti R, Betteto S, Tamagno E, Danni O, Boccuzzi G. Oxidative stress and eicosanoids in the kidneys of hyperglycemic rats treated with dehydroepiandrosterone. Free Radic Biol Med 2001; 31:935-42. [PMID: 11595378 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-5849(01)00669-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of chronic diabetic complications. Normoglycemic and streptozotocin-diabetic rats were treated with dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) (4 mg/d per rat) for 3 weeks. At the end of treatment, hydroxynonenal, hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acids and antioxidant levels, as well as Na/K-ATPase activity and membrane fatty acids composition were evaluated in kidney homogenates. Chronic hyperglycemia caused a marked increase of both hydroxynonenal and lipoxygenase pathway products and a drop in both GSH levels and membrane Na/K-ATPase activity. DHEA treatment restored the antioxidant levels to close to the control value and considerably reduced hydroxynonenal and hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid levels. Moreover, DHEA counteracted the detrimental effect of hyperglycemia on membrane function: the drop of Na/K-ATPase activity in diabetic animals was significantly inhibited by DHEA treatment. These results show that DHEA reduces oxidative stress and the consequent increase of lipoxygenase pathway products induced by experimental diabetes in rat kidney; they also suggest that, by reducing the inflammatory response to oxidative stress, DHEA treatment might delay the progression of diabetic kidney disease.
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- M Aragno
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Oncology, General Pathology Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Aragno M, Parola S, Tamagno E, Brignardello E, Manti R, Danni O, Boccuzzi G. Oxidative derangement in rat synaptosomes induced by hyperglycaemia: restorative effect of dehydroepiandrosterone treatment. Biochem Pharmacol 2000; 60:389-95. [PMID: 10856434 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(00)00327-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Central nervous system damage in diabetes is caused by both cerebral atherosclerosis and the detrimental effect of chronic hyperglycaemia on nervous tissue. Hyperglycaemia is the primer of a series of cascade reactions causing overproduction of free radicals. There is increasing evidence that these reactive molecules contribute to neuronal tissue damage. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) has been reported to possess antioxidant properties. This study evaluates the oxidative status in the synaptosomal fraction isolated from the brain of streptozotocin-treated rats and the antioxidant effect of DHEA treatment on diabetic rats. Hydroxyl radical generation, hydrogen peroxide content, and the level of the reactive oxygen species was increased (P<0.05) in synaptosomes isolated from streptozotocin-treated rats. The derangement of the oxidative status was confirmed by a low level of reduced glutathione and alpha-tocopherol. DHEA treatment (4 mg per day for 3 weeks, per os) protected the synaptosomes against oxidative damage: synaptosomes from diabetic DHEA-treated rats showed a significant decrease in reactive species (P<0.05) and in the formation of end products of lipid peroxidation, evaluated in terms of fluorescent chromolipid (P<0.01). Moreover, DHEA treatment restored the unsaturated fatty acid content of the membrane and the reduced glutathione and alpha-tocopherol levels to normal levels and restored membrane NaK-ATPase activity close to control levels. The results demonstrate that DHEA supplementation greatly reduces oxidative damage in synaptosomes isolated from diabetic rats and suggest that this neurosteroid may participate in protecting the integrity of synaptic membranes against hyperglycaemia-induced damage.
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- M Aragno
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Oncology, General Pathology Section, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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Yamamoto Y, Yasuda Y, Kimura Y, Komiya Y. Effects of cilostazol, an antiplatelet agent, on axonal regeneration following nerve injury in diabetic rats. Eur J Pharmacol 1998; 352:171-8. [PMID: 9716352 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(98)00356-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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To evaluate the ability of cilostazol, an antiplatelet and vasodilating agent, to promote axonal regeneration in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, the time until beginning of regeneration (initial delay) and the axonal regeneration rate of the sciatic nerve were estimated using the pinch test, and ornithine decarboxylase activity was measured in dorsal root ganglia. At 5 weeks of diabetes, axonal regeneration rate remained unchanged but the initial delay was prolonged and ornithine decarboxylase induction was delayed in diabetic rats compared with those in normal rats. Cilostazol had little effect on these parameters in normal or diabetic rats. At 10 weeks of diabetes, diabetic rats showed both prolongation of initial delay and a decrease in axonal regeneration rate. Cilostazol markedly increased axonal regeneration rate in diabetic rats. Ornithine decarboxylase induction following nerve injury disappeared almost completely in diabetic rats but was maintained by cilostazol treatment. The effect of cilostazol in diabetic rats is thought to be mediated through its preventive effect on circulatory disorders. The active site of the drug appears to be early processes in nerve regeneration before ornithine decarboxylase induction. Further, the results suggest that the both axonal regeneration and this induction are sensitive to circulatory defects in diabetes.
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- Y Yamamoto
- Thrombosis and Vascular Research Laboratory, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan.
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Yagihashi S. Pathology and pathogenetic mechanisms of diabetic neuropathy. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1995; 11:193-225. [PMID: 8536541 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610110304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- S Yagihashi
- Department of Pathology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Hirano F, Tanaka H, Okamoto K, Makino Y, Inaba M, Nomura Y, Fukawa E, Miura T, Tani T, Makino I. Natural course of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in spontaneous-onset diabetic Chinese hamsters. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 1995; 28:151-9. [PMID: 8529493 DOI: 10.1016/0168-8227(95)01091-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We investigated metabolic and pathological changes in the peripheral nerve of the spontaneous-onset diabetic Chinese hamster. Electrophysiological examination revealed that the motor nerve conduction velocity was significantly decreased at 10 months and afterwards, however, the F-wave latency was significantly increased at 5 months and afterwards. Concerning sciatic nerve contents of sorbitol, myo- and scyllo-inositol, the content of sorbitol was not significantly increased at 5 months, but, myo- and scyllo-inositol were significantly decreased at 5 months and thereafter. At 10 and 15 months, however, sciatic nerve content of sorbitol was significantly increased. On morphological examination, loss of large myelinated fiber and reciprocal increase in degenerative fiber were also seen in sciatic nerve, but not in tibial nerve, at 5 months. At 15 months, these morphological changes were also found in the tibial as well as the sciatic nerve. Thus, we may hypothesize that F-wave latency is useful in the detection of initial diabetic neuropathy, and that the initial pathological changes in diabetic neuropathy of diabetic Chinese hamsters are predominantly found in the proximal site of peripheral nerves.
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- F Hirano
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
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Yasuda H, Maeda K, Sonobe M, Kawabata T, Terada M, Hisanaga T, Taniguchi Y, Kikkawa R, Shigeta Y. Metabolic effect of PGE1 analogue 01206.alpha CD on nerve Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity of rats with streptozocin-induced diabetes is mediated via cAMP: possible role of cAMP in diabetic neuropathy. PROSTAGLANDINS 1994; 47:367-78. [PMID: 8066185 DOI: 10.1016/0090-6980(94)90054-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We investigated the dose-dependent effects of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) analogue, OP1206.alpha CD (OP), on motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV), nerve blood flow (NBF) and Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase (ATPase) activity in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats. At 10 micrograms/kg/day, OP ameliorated MNCV and NBF, but no ATPase activity, whereas at 30 micrograms/kg/day it increased MNCV and ATPase activity, but not NBF. These results suggested a possible direct metabolic effect of OP, at least at a certain dose, on ATPase activity independent of NBF. Since PGE1 exerts an effect on nerve cAMP content, we conducted an in vitro study to clarify the relationship of cAMP to the modulation of ATPase activity in diabetic nerves. We studied sciatic nerves isolated from 53 rats with streptozocin-induced diabetes that had exhibited hyperglycemia for 6 wk. OP increased the activity of ATPase and the accumulation of cAMP in a dose-dependent manner. Dibutyryl cAMP, a cAMP analogue, and aminophyline, which increases nerve cAMP content, enhanced ATPase activity in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, the increased activity of ATPase in diabetic nerves produced by OP was suppressed by a protein kinase inhibitor, H8. These results suggest that ATPase activity in diabetic nerves might be regulated or modified by cAMP and, possibly, by protein kinase A, a finding that is important for clarifying the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy and for developing new approaches to treatment.
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- H Yasuda
- Third Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan
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Calcutt NA, Mizisin AP, Yaksh TL. Impaired induction of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide after sciatic nerve injury in the streptozotocin-diabetic rat. J Neurol Sci 1993; 119:154-61. [PMID: 8277329 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(93)90128-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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This study was designed to assess the effects of experimental diabetes and nerve crush injury upon vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) content and axonal transport in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and sciatic nerve. Sciatic nerve crush injury in control and 3-week streptozotocin-diabetic rats was followed 6.5 days later by placement of 2 constricting ligatures above the site of injury. After 12 h, the L4 and L5 DRG and sciatic nerve were removed for VIP radioimmunoassay. Similar samples were also taken from control and diabetic rats whose nerve had been ligated without a preceding crush. VIP was increased over 2-fold in ganglia and 4-fold in nerves of crush-injured controls compared to uninjured controls (both P < 0.01). Crush injury also increased ganglion and nerve VIP in diabetic rats (P < 0.05 and 0.01, respectively) but the increase was less than what occurred in crush-injured controls (both P < 0.05). The accumulation of VIP proximal to a sciatic ligature was similar in control and diabetic rats and was not altered in either group by crush injury, while retrograde transport of VIP was initiated by crush injury in both control and diabetic rats. These data show that short-term diabetes does not alter the amount and peripheral axonal transport of VIP in the sciatic nerve but impairs the ability of peripheral nerve to respond to injury.
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- N A Calcutt
- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Greene DA, Sima AA, Stevens MJ, Feldman EL, Killen PD, Henry DN, Thomas T, Dananberg J, Lattimer SA. Aldose reductase inhibitors: an approach to the treatment of diabetic nerve damage. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1993; 9:189-217. [PMID: 8187607 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610090304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- D A Greene
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Bhatnagar A, Srivastava SK. Aldose reductase: congenial and injurious profiles of an enigmatic enzyme. BIOCHEMICAL MEDICINE AND METABOLIC BIOLOGY 1992; 48:91-121. [PMID: 1419150 DOI: 10.1016/0885-4505(92)90055-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- A Bhatnagar
- Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550
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Nakamura J, Del Monte MA, Shewach D, Lattimer SA, Greene DA. Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol synthase by glucose in human retinal pigment epithelial cells. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1992; 262:E417-26. [PMID: 1314495 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1992.262.4.e417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A series of interrelated biochemical and functional defects, induced by hyperglycemia, associated with intracellular depletion of D-myo-inositol, and corrected by aldose reductase inhibitors, have been ascribed to abnormal phosphoinositide metabolism in several tissues prone to diabetic complications. However, reductions in tissue D-myo-inositol content are not universally found in complications-prone diabetic tissues, and direct mass-action effects of cellular D-myo-inositol depletion on the critical CDPdiacylglycerol-inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase (PI synthase; EC 2.7.8.11) step have never been shown conclusively in relevant cells. The studies reported here simultaneously estimated the chemical mass of CDP diglyceride by equilibrium labeling with 5-[3H]cytidine and phosphoinositide biosynthesis by the incorporation of [32P]orthophosphate into phosphoinositide. This was done to assess the degree of inhibition of PI synthase under various degrees of D-myo-inositol depletion and sorbitol accumulation induced by glucose and other metabolic manipulations in cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells, a new in vitro model for diabetic complications. The results suggest that sorbitol accumulation limits the PI synthase reaction in these cells by selectively depleting specific intracellular pools of D-myo-inositol and/or by possible independent effects of sorbitol on PI synthase.
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- J Nakamura
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
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Llewelyn JG, Thomas PK, Mirrlees DJ. Aldose reductase activity and myo-inositol levels in sciatic nerve and dorsal root ganglia of the diabetic mutant mouse [C57/BL/Ks (db/db)]. Metabolism 1991; 40:1084-7. [PMID: 1943734 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(91)90134-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Glucose, polyol (sorbitol, fructose), and myo-inositol levels were estimated in peripheral nerve tissue of the diabetic mutant mouse [C57/BL/Ks (db/db)]. At 26 and 40 weeks of age, there was significant accumulation of glucose, sorbitol, and fructose. Tissue myo-inositol levels were lower than those in age-matched control animals at 40 weeks, but not at 26 weeks. Polyol changes in mouse nerve were less marked than those in rat nerve. In dorsal root ganglia, there was also an increase in glucose, sorbitol, and fructose, with a decrease in myo-inositol concentration. These findings show that there is increased aldose reductase activity in peripheral nerve tissue of the diabetic mutant mouse.
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- J G Llewelyn
- Department of Neurological Science, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK
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