Clinical diabetes research : methods and techniques /
A practical "how to" guide for multiple methods in metabolism, with a critical and objective discussion of strengths, limitations, and appropriate applications of the described methods. Edited by the winner of the Oskar-Minkowski Prize of the EASD in 2006. Clinical trials in populations at...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
©2007.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Basics of clinical metabolic research
- Methods for the assessment of ß-cell function in vivo
- Assessment of insulin sensitivity from steady-state and dynamic tests
- Glucose clamp techniques
- Methods of assessment of counterregulation to hypoglycaemia
- Glucose kinetics: measurement of flux rates
- Xenobiotics as probes of carbohydrate metabolism
- Tracing hepatic glucose and glycogen fluxes with ²H₂O
- Lipid kinetics
- Protein and amino acid kinetics
- Assessment of metabolic fluxes by in vivo MR spectroscopy
- Positron emission tomography in metabolic research
- Assessment of body fact content and distribution
- Tissue biopsies in diabetes research
- Assessment of vascular function
- Cardiovascular autonomic function testing
- Nerve function testing
- Kidney function
- Techniques for the investigation of the eye in diabetes
- Basics of molecular genetics: lessons from type 2 diabetes
- Good clinical practice: friend or foe?
- Statistical considerations in diabetes trials.