Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic illness caused by insulin resistance or lack of it. Hypertension (HT) has been seen frequently in diabetic patients, and causes morbidity and mortality with its complications. Salusins are vasodilator and hypotensive peptids which function most in cardiovascular system. Apelin is an insulin-sensitive, vasoconstructive, positive inotropic-effective peptide. In this study, determining the levels of serum salusin-α, salusin...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem due to defects of the effect of the insulin or insulin deficiency, accompanied by chronic microvascular complications with diabetic nephropathy is characterised by proteinuria that the increasing number of patients progress to end stage renal disease. Many peptide hormone made in etiopathogenesis is situated, although adropin which discovered in recent years involves in glucose homeostasis, its relation to d...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which causes acute and chronic complications including insulin deficiency and ineffectiveness or both its incidence is increasing every day. Urinary tract infections are more frequently seen and can lead a more aggressive course in diabetic patients when compared with the population in general. The aim of this study is to determine antibacterial susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from diabetic and non-diab...