Clinical Pathobiochemistry of Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Improving Our Understanding by Exploring Novel Mechanisms with a Focus on Diabetic Neuropathy

E Schleicher, T Didangelos, E Kotzakioulafi, A Cegan… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vitamin B12 (B12) is an essential cofactor of two important biochemical pathways, the
degradation of methylmalonic acid and the synthesis of methionine from homocysteine …

Genetic and epigenomic modifiers of diabetic neuropathy

M Jankovic, I Novakovic, D Nikolic… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diabetic neuropathy (DN), the most common chronic and progressive complication of
diabetes mellitus (DM), strongly affects patients' quality of life. DN could be present as …

Neuron-specific biomarkers predict hypo-and hyperalgesia in individuals with diabetic peripheral neuropathy

J Morgenstern, JB Groener, JME Jende, FT Kurz… - Diabetologia, 2021 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis The individual risk of progression of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is
difficult to predict for each individual. Mutations in proteins that are responsible for the …

Diffusion tensor imaging of the sciatic nerve as a surrogate marker for nerve functionality of the upper and lower limb in patients with diabetes and prediabetes

JME Jende, Z Kender, C Mooshage… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background Nerve damage in diabetic neuropathy (DN) is assumed to begin in the distal
legs with a subsequent progression to hands and arms at later stages. In contrast, recent …

Troponin T parallels structural nerve damage in type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study using magnetic resonance neurography

JME Jende, JB Groener, Z Kender, A Hahn… - Diabetes, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Clinical studies have suggested that changes in peripheral nerve microcirculation may
contribute to nerve damage in diabetic polyneuropathy (DN). High-sensitivity troponin T …

Sciatic nerve microvascular permeability in type 2 diabetes decreased in patients with neuropathy

JME Jende, C Mooshage, Z Kender… - Annals of clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Clinical and histological studies have found evidence that nerve ischemia is a
major contributor to diabetic neuropathy (DN) in type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aim of this study …

Diabetic polyneuropathy is associated with pathomorphological changes in human dorsal root ganglia: a study using 3T MR neurography

JME Jende, Z Kender, C Rother… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diabetic neuropathy (DPN) is one of the most severe and yet most poorly understood
complications of diabetes mellitus. In vivo imaging of dorsal root ganglia (DRG), a key …

Identification of risk factors for patients with diabetes: diabetic polyneuropathy case study

O Metsker, K Magoev, A Yakovlev… - BMC medical informatics …, 2020 - Springer
Background Methods of data mining and analytics can be efficiently applied in medicine to
develop models that use patient-specific data to predict the development of diabetic …

Diabetic neuropathy is a generalized phenomenon with impact on hand functional performance and quality of life

Z Kender, JB Groener, JME Jende… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Diabetic sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy is usually
considered to affect predominantly the lower limbs (LL‐N), whereas the impact of upper limb …

Sensory phenotypes provide insight into the natural course of diabetic polyneuropathy

D Tsilingiris, L Schimpfle, E von Rauchhaupt… - Diabetes, 2024 - Am Diabetes Assoc
We aimed to investigate the characteristics and longitudinal course of sensory phenotypes
identified through quantitative sensory testing (QST) in the frame of diabetic sensorimotor …