Endocrine Abstracts

Our research focused on the role of immune mechanisms in diabetic foot ulcers development and impaired healing. The AIM of this study was to evaluate endogenous interleukin (IL1,4,6,8) production to the culture medium by the skin cells (keratinocytes and fibroblasts) cocultured with mononuclears of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and T2DM with chronic foot ulcers (DFU) in a 3D culture model.Materials and methods: A multilayer 3D immunocompe...

The aim: To test cytotoxic effects of immune factors of patients with chronic diabetic foot ulcers on keratinocytes and fibroblasts in a 3D skin culture system.Materials and methods: In this study a multilayer 3D human skin model comprising of keratinocytes, fibroblasts and dendritic cells in an agarose-fibronectin gel was used. 20% serum of 13 patients with chronic noninfected diabetic foot ulcers, 13 diabetic type 2 patients and 13 healthy people and l...

The concept of a subclinical form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is well established. Although there has been considerable research of peripheral neuropathy in type 1 diabetes, still there is controversy regarding the pattern of nerve involvement in diabetic neuropathy. Detection of the pattern of nerve involvement can help to establish a protocol for screening of DPN in its subclinical stage.Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the patter...

Aim: To study the relationship of cytokines level in patients with diabetic foot syndrome (SDS) with a healing rate of ulcerative defect and diabetes compensation.Materials and methods: Twenty-four patients with DFS (DFS group) and 24 diabetic patients without foot ulcers (control group) (both groups comparable in age and other clinical and general laboratory characteristics, ongoing treatment, offloading mode). All DFS patients had chronic non-infected ...