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F A Gries

Publications and source records attributed to F A Gries.

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[Weight reduction and glucose intolerance in obese subjects (author's transl)].

In a study extending over five years 35 of 70 excessively overweight patients with subclinical diabetes mellitus who had not significantly changed their weight, demonstrated a further deterioration in glucose tolerance, and manifest diabetes occurred in ten. In the remaining 35 patients who had achieved 20% weight reduction from the initial level glucose tolerance had become normal. The two groups were similar as to age, initial weight, and original degree of glucose intolerance. There was a significant correlation between loss of weight and increased glucose tolerance. No such correlation occurred with subgroups of patients whose initial overweight was more than +100 relative percentage and who had been over 50 years old at the start of the study.

Adult↗

HLA antigens and immunoresponsiveness to insulin in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

HLA-A and B antigens were determined in 112 patients with insulin-dependent juvenile onset diabetes mellitus, who could be subdivided into "non" and "high responder" to insulin. The data revealed a trend of an association of these diabetes subgroups with only one of the diabetes-associated antigens HLA-B8 and HLA-BW15 and indicated the existence of at least two different genetic constellations for susceptibility to juvenile diabetes mellitus. One form with a strong immune-response to insulin seemed to be associated with HLA-BW 15 and the other form without humoral immunoreactivity to insulin seemed to be associated with the presence of HLA-B8 and the absence of HLA-B7.

Diabetes Mellitus↗

Dietary-induced hypertrophic--hyperplastic obesity in mice.

Metabolically intact NMRI mice and genetically obese NZO mice were fed ad lib. either a high-carbohydrate diet (standard) or a high-fat diet for a period of about 11 (NMRI mice) or 38 (NZO mice) wk. In both strains of mice, body weight increased more in the groups fed the high-fat diet. However, caloric intake by NMRI mice fed the high-fat diet was less than that of the controls. In NMRI mice fed the high-fat diet, epididymal and subcutaneous fat cell volumes increased; when these mice were fed the standard diet, only epididymal fat cell volume increased. Epididymal and subcutaneous fat cell numbers increased only in the group fed the high-fat diet. In NMRI mice fed either diet, the postprandial blood glucose was lower in older animals, but plasma insulin remained unchanged. The glucose tolerance deteriorated insignificantly. In NZO mice fed either diet, epididymal fat cell volumes and fat cell numbers increased. In this strain of mice the postprandial blood glucose and plasma insulin exhibited the strain-specific pattern, independent of the diet. In older animals fed either diet the glucose tolerance decreased.

Adipose Tissue↗