Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Metabolic disturbances at the Diabetes Mellitus (DM) leads to structural and functional abnormalities of the cell plasma membrane due to changes in the lipid content and composition, especially phospholipids. Plasmalogens are unique group of phospholipids with alcohol and ether bounds, presented in a few papers. We hypothesis their involvement into pathogenesis of DM.Material and methods: We studied the content of Plasmalogens in blood plas...

Backgrounds: Diabetes mellitus is a complex disease accompanied by the development of complications. In addition to the classic hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia, a number of other factors are involved in the pathogenesis of complications. Plasmalogens disturbances participates in nerve tissue degeneration.Materials and methods: In 76 people with DM2 plasma and erythrocytes membranes plasmalogenes measured and compared according to diabetic neuropathy.<...