Endocrine Abstracts

The cephalochordates (amphioxus) are the closest living invertebrate relatives of vertebrates, and have proved extremely useful for understanding the evolution of vertebrate genes and genomes. Molecular analysis in amphioxus has confirmed that vertebrates have a genome architecture that is fundamentally different from invertebrates. First, vertebrates have more genes than invertebrates. Second, vertebrates have many small multigene families (with 2 to 4 genes). Most of these a...

Aim: To explore parents’ views on what information should be given when a child is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.Method: A questionnaire based, mixed quantitative and qualitative pilot study was conducted. All children diagnosed in the previous year were identified. A questionnaire which contained a list of topics recommended by NICE/ISPAD was developed. Parents were asked to complete this after their clinic appointment. They were asked to divide t...