title: Serum levels of sL-selectin and tumour necrosis factor-alpha in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a result of inflammation and destruction of alpha-cells in the pancreatic islet cells. The aim of this study is to evaluate the associations of diabetes with soluble L-selectin (sL-selectin) and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in children with type 1 DM; and also to evaluate the associations of these parameters with the disease period, glycaemic control state and puberty stage. Serum sL-selectin and TNF-alpha levels were measured in 44 children with type 1 DM and 44 healthy children. Neither the patients nor the control group showed significant difference between the levels of sL-selectin and TNF-alpha (sequence mean 12.17+/-1.62 ng/ml vs. 12.62+/-1.56 ng/ml and 7.27+/-3.1 pg/ml vs. 7.88+/-2.7 pg/ml). There was no statistically significant difference between children with duration of diabetes longer than 5 years and children with duration of diabetes shorter than 1 year. There was also no statistically significant difference between poor glycaemic control and good-acceptable glycaemic control patients. The present results indicate that sL-selectin and TNF-alpha serum levels are not increased and cannot be used as prognostic predictors in type 1 DM; and also sL-selectin and TNF-alpha do not change with the disease period, glycaemic control state and puberty stage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. dursunhs@yahoo.com
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dursun
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cinaz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bideci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guven
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aybay
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elbeg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019041:L-Selectin / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D019041:L-Selectin