ea0020p343 | Diabetes and Cardiovascular | ECE2009
Guldiken Sibel
, Taskiran Bengur
, Demir Muzaffer
, Tugrul Armagan
, Altun Betul Ugur
Aim: Diabetic foot is a devastating complication of diabetes mellitus. Many factors such as neuropathy, vascular injury and infection contribute in the development of diabetic foot. Programmed cell death is a pathway that causes a tendency for the development of atherosclerosis. Whereas Fas/Fas ligand pathway induces apoptosis, osteoprotegerin (OPG) causes calcification in vascular area and also effects apoptotic pathway. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the role ...