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Basophil Leucocytes and Heparinoid Substances in Diabetes Mellitus
Author(s) -
ENGLESON GUNNAR,
LINDBERG TOR
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1963.tb04082.x
Subject(s) - heparinoid , medicine , diabetes mellitus , angiopathy , basophil , diabetic angiopathy , immunology , endocrinology , heparin , immunoglobulin e , antibody
Summary The present investigation showed a reduction in the content of heparinoid substances in the blood in the late vascular complications of diabetes. This finding suggests the occurrence, in diabetic angiopathy, of a disorder pathogenetically similar to that in atherosclerosis. The decrease found in the amount of heparinoid substances in the blood cannot be explained by a change in the number of basophil leucocytes, which are normal in diabetes mellitus. The number of cases, however, is not large and further investigations are in progress.