• Increased Plasma Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Alpha Levels in Patients With Long-Term Type 1 Diabetes With Vascular Complications Associated With IL2RA and PTPN2 Gene Polymorphisms 

      Keindl, Magdalena; Fedotkina, Olena; du Plessis, Elsa; Jain, Ruchi; Bergum, Brith; Mygind Jensen, Troels; Laustrup Møller, Cathrine; Falhammar, Henrik; Nyström, Thomas; Catrina, Sergiu-Bogdan; Jörneskog, Gun; Groop, Leif; Eliasson, Mats; Eliasson, Björn; Brismar, Kerstin; Nilsson, Peter M.; Berg, Tore Julsrud; Appel, Silke; Lyssenko, Valeriya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is largely considered an autoimmune disease leading to the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic β cells. Further, patients with T1D have 3–4-fold increased risk of developing micro- and ...
    • Liver nucleotide biosynthesis is linked to protection from vascular complications in individuals with long-term type 1 diabetes 

      Jain, Ruchi; Özgümüs, Türküler; Jensen, Troels Mygind; du Plessis, Elsa; Keindl, Magdalena; Møller, Cathrine Laustrup; Falhammar, Henrik; Nyström, Thomas; Catrina, Sergiu-Bogdan; Jörneskog, Gun; Jessen, Leon Eyrich; Forsblom, Carol; Haukka, Jani K.; Groop, Per-Henrik; Rossing, Peter; Groop, Leif; Eliasson, Mats; Eliasson, Björn; Brismar, Kerstin; Al-Majdoub, Mahmoud; Nilsson, Peter M.; Taskinen, Marja-Riitta; Ferrannini, Ele; Spégel, Peter; Berg, Tore Julsrud; Lyssenko, Valeriya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Identification of biomarkers associated with protection from developing diabetic complications is a prerequisite for an effective prevention and treatment. The aim of the present study was to identify clinical and plasma ...
    • Neuronal Dysfunction Is Linked to the Famine-Associated Risk of Proliferative Retinopathy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes 

      Fedotkina, Olena; Jain, Ruchi; Prasad, Rashmi B.; Luk, Andrea; García-Ramírez, Marta; Özgümüs, Türküler; Cherviakova, Liubov; Khalimon, Nadiya; Svietleisha, Tetiana; Buldenko, Tetiana; Kravchenko, Victor; Jain, Deepak; Vaag, Allan; Chan, Juliana; Khalangot, Mykola D.; Hernández, Cristina; Nilsson, Peter M.; Simo, Rafael; Artner, Isabella; Lyssenko, Valeriya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-05)
      Persons with type 2 diabetes born in the regions of famine exposures have disproportionally elevated risk of vision-threatening proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) in adulthood. However, the underlying mechanisms are ...
    • Reduced expression of OXPHOS and DNA damage genes is linked to protection from microvascular complications in long-term type 1 diabetes: the PROLONG study 

      Özgümüs, Türküler; Sulaieva, Oksana; Jessen, Leon E.; Jain, Ruchi; Falhammar, Henrik; Nyström, Thomas; Catrina, Sergiu-Bogdan; Jörneskog, Gun; Groop, Leif; Eliasson, Mats; Eliasson, Björn; Brismar, Kerstin; Stokowy, Tomasz; Nilsson, Peter M.; Lyssenko, Valeriya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease requiring insulin treatment for survival. Prolonged duration of type 1 diabetes is associated with increased risk of microvascular complications. Although chronic hyperglycemia ...
    • Starvation to Glucose Reprograms Development of Neurovascular Unit in Embryonic Retinal Cells 

      Özgümüs, Türküler; Sulaieva, Oksana; Jain, Ruchi; Artner, Isabella; Lyssenko, Valeriya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Perinatal exposure to starvation is a risk factor for development of severe retinopathy in adult patients with diabetes. However, the underlying mechanisms are not completely understood. In the present study, we shed light ...