Does diabetes mellitus target motor neurons?

A pattern of peripheral neurodegeneration occurs in chronic diabetes mellitus in which an early, but selective retraction of distal axons may occur prior to any irretrievable neuronal loss. Clinical observations suggest that sensory systems undergo damage before those of motor neurons. In this work,...

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Published in:Neurobiology of Disease
Main Authors: Noor Ramji, Cory Toth, James Kennedy, Douglas W. Zochodne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007-05-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996106002968