Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: MicroRNAs (miRNA) are noncoding RNAs that play a central role in governing a variety of physiological and pathological processes, and there are few studies on miR involvement in diabetes mellitus. There are three principal types of diabetes, i.e., type 1 (T1DM), type 2 (T2DM) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). In this study we performed a meta-analysis of the miRNA expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from T1DM, T2DM and GDM pat...

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter primarily produced by neurons and pancreatic beta cells. GABA functional receptors (GABR) are expressed in brain, pancreas and peripheral blood lymphomononuclear cells (PBMC). After evaluating the differential gene expression in PBMC of recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus patients (T1D), three GABRA networks were observed, modulating the expression dozen of genes. The study was conducted on T (CD4+ a...