| Literature DB >> 7160545 |
Abstract
Proximal motor neuropathy is a well-recognized neuropathic complication in human diabetes mellitus, due to microvasculopathic changes. Spontaneously diabetic BB-Wistar rats maintained at a moderate severity of diabetes developed structural proximal motor neuropathy after long-standing diabetes. This was caused by multiple infarcts in the spinal ventral roots. Endoneurial vessels showed occlusions by platelet aggregates and unstriated fibrin, indicative of a hypercoagulability.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 7160545 DOI: 10.2337/diab.31.9.784
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diabetes ISSN: 0012-1797 Impact factor: 9.461