title: [Discovery of autoantibodies to Langergan's islands of the pancreas is a prominent achievement in the field of forecasting the development and diagnostics of diabetes mellitus in clinics].
abstract: The authors have summarized literature data and results of own studies on autoantibodies and beta-cells of Langergan's islands of the pancreas (ICA, GADA, IA-2A and IAA). It may help predicting the development of I type diabetes mellitus even in practically healthy individuals before they present clinically evident disease. The history of the discovery of these autoantibodies, their immunological properties, comparative characteristics, sensibility and specificity and their application in clinical practice to forecast the development of I type diabetes mellitus in different populations of children and adolescents as well as to more exactly carry out differential diagnostics of DM type I and DM type II in difficult cases in adults is presented in the article. Having diabetes-associated autoantibodies as a diagnostic tool allows to diagnose a separate subtype of diabetes mellitus--autoimmune diabetes mellitus of adults (LADA) and it is very important to choose a right way of the treatment.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Popova
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Zak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000276:immunology*; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies