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ArticleHeliyon2024

Novel strategy: Identifying new markers for demyelination in diabetic distal symmetrical polyneuropathy.

Nizar Souayah, Hongxin Chen, Zhao Zhong Chong, Tejas Patel, Ankit Pahwa, Daniel L Menkes, Timothy Cunningham

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Nizar SouayahNew Jersey Medical School, 90 Bergen Street DOC 8100, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
Hongxin ChenNew Jersey Medical School, 90 Bergen Street DOC 8100, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
Zhao Zhong ChongNew Jersey Medical School, 90 Bergen Street DOC 8100, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
Tejas PatelNew Jersey Medical School, 90 Bergen Street DOC 8100, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
Ankit PahwaSMR Consulting, 407 Elmwood Avenue, Sharon Hill, PA, 19079, USA.
Daniel L MenkesDepartment of Neurology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, 3555 West 13 Mile Road, Suite N120, Royal Oak, MI, 48073, USA.
Timothy CunninghamDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19129, USA.

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Abstract

Objective: To develop a novel strategy for identifying acquired demyelination in diabetic distal symmetrical polyneuropathy (DSP). Background: Motor nerve conduction velocity (CV) slowing in diabetic DSP exceeds expectations for pure axonal loss thus implicating superimposed acquired demyelination. Methods: After establishing demyelination confidence intervals by regression analysis of nerve conduction data from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), we prospectively studied CV slowing in 90 diabetic DSP patients with and without at least one motor nerve exhibiting CV slowing (groups A and B) into the demyelination range by American Academy of Neurology (AAN) criteria respectively and 95 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Simultaneously, secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity was assessed in both diabetic groups and 46 healthy controls. Results: No ALS patient exhibited CV slowing in more than two motor nerves based on AAN criteria or the confidence intervals. Group A demonstrated a significantly higher percentage of patients as compared to group B fulfilling the above criteria, with an additional criterion of at least one motor nerve exhibiting CV slowing in the demyelinating range and a corresponding F response in the demyelinating range by AAN criteria (70.3 % Conclusion: A combination of regression analysis of electrodiagnostic data and a urine biological marker of systemic inflammation identifies a subgroup of diabetic DSP with superimposed acquired demyelination that may respond favorably to immunomodulatory therapy.

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Conduction velocity slowingDemyelinationDiabetic neuropathyDistal symmetric polyneuropathyRegression analysis

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PMID38765173
PMCPMC11101717

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