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| Andrea TuraSummaryAffiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering Country: Italy Publications
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Non-esterified fatty acid dynamics during oral glucose tolerance test in women with former gestational diabetesA Tura
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering ISIB CNR, Padua, Italy Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Department of Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Department of Metabolic Diseases, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Dusseldorf, Germany Karl Landsteiner Institute for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vienna, Austria
Diabet Med 29:351-8. 2012..This parameter may serve as indicator of an early metabolic derangement in this population at risk for diabetes...- Estimation of prehepatic insulin secretion: comparison between standardized C-peptide and insulin kinetic modelsAndrea Tura
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
Metabolism 61:434-43. 2012..The insulin-based ISR method compares favorably with the C-peptide approach. The method will be particularly useful in data sets lacking C-peptide to assess ?-cell function through models requiring prehepatic secretion... - A low frequency electromagnetic sensor for indirect measurement of glucose concentration: in vitro experiments in different conductive solutionsAndrea Tura
ISIB CNR, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padua, Italy
Sensors (Basel) 10:5346-58. 2010..22 mV/(mg/dL). Our proposed system may thus be useful in a new approach for non-invasive and non-contact glucose monitoring... - Gait symmetry and regularity in transfemoral amputees assessed by trunk accelerationsAndrea Tura
Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
J Neuroeng Rehabil 7:4. 2010..The aim of this study was to evaluate a method based on a single accelerometer for the assessment of gait symmetry and regularity in subjects wearing lower limb prostheses... - Non-invasive glucose monitoring: assessment of technologies and devices according to quantitative criteriaAndrea Tura
Metabolic Unit, ISIB CNR, Padua, Italy
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 77:16-40. 2007..Conclusions of the review were that, despite some interesting and promising technologies and devices, a satisfactory solution to the non-invasive glucose monitoring problem still requires further efforts... - Impedance spectroscopy of solutions at physiological glucose concentrationsA Tura
ISIB CNR, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy
Biophys Chem 129:235-41. 2007.... - Shape of glucose, insulin, C-peptide curves during a 3-h oral glucose tolerance test: any relationship with the degree of glucose tolerance?Andrea Tura
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 300:R941-8. 2011..WHOSH(CP) (WHole-Ogtt-SHape-index) may be a powerful index of ?-cell function much simpler than model-based indices... - A telemedicine instrument for home monitoring of patients with chronic respiratory diseasesAndrea Tura
Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 43:101-9. 2007..The instrument was extensively tested, and preliminary trials were performed over fifteen patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis... - Wireless home monitoring and health care activity management through the Internet in patients with chronic diseasesAndrea Tura
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
Med Inform Internet Med 30:241-53. 2005..At the end, although some improvements were suggested, good acceptance was detected, and 78% of patients and families claimed to be interested in further use of the platform... - Impaired beta-cell function in lean normotolerant former gestational diabetic womenA Tura
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, CNR, Padua, Italy
Eur J Clin Invest 36:22-8. 2006..Former gestational diabetes (fGDM) constitutes a risk condition for the development of Type 2 diabetes. Former gestational diabetes is often characterized by obesity and hyperglycaemia, which may be concomitant and independent risk factors... - Noninvasive glycaemia monitoring: background, traditional findings, and novelties in the recent clinical trialsAndrea Tura
Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the National Research Council, Padua, Italy
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 11:607-12. 2008..The aim of the present review is to briefly present the main technologies in the field and the devices recently developed based on them... - A multi-functional, portable device with wireless transmission for home monitoring of children with a learning disabilityA Tura
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
J Telemed Telecare 10:298-302. 2004..The monitoring device identified events of possible clinical interest. Although it was designed for monitoring children with a learning disability, it may also be useful with other groups, such as elderly people... - Influence of hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance on in vivo ?-cell function: their role in human ?-cell dysfunctionAndrea Mari
National Research Council Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Padova, Italy
Diabetes 60:3141-7. 2011..We have tested whether insulin exposure and insulin sensitivity modulate ?-cell function in subjects with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) and whether they contribute to dysglycemia in impaired glucose regulation (IGR)... - Basal and dynamic proinsulin-insulin relationship to assess beta-cell function during OGTT in metabolic disordersAndrea Tura
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 285:E155-62. 2003..43 +/- 0.08, 0.61 +/- 0.10, and 0.56 +/- 0.03 in NGT, IGT, and T2DM subjects, respectively, P < 0.0001). Impaired beta-cell function in T2DM could then be indicated by proinsulin-to-insulin indexes at both basal and dynamic phases... - Insulinogenic indices from insulin and C-peptide: comparison of beta-cell function from OGTT and IVGTTAndrea Tura
Metabolic Unit, ISIB-CNR, Corso Stati Uniti, Padova, Italy
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 72:298-301. 2006..However, the weaker correlation of the C-peptide index with the more accurate index from the IVGTT suggests that it should be used with caution. The index at 60 min can be used as surrogate of IGI, but not the indices at 90 and 120 min... - Delta2D and Proteomweaver: Performance evaluation of two different approaches for 2-DE analysisRenato Millioni
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Metabolism, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Electrophoresis 31:1311-7. 2010..The differences between ease of use and workflow strategy of these programs is discussed... - Value of the intravenous and oral glucose tolerance tests for detecting subtle impairments in insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function in former gestational diabetesA Tura
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, CNR, Padua, Italy
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 69:237-43. 2008..Our aim was to study insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function with two independent glucose tolerance tests in fGDM women divided according to their glucose tolerance... - Assessing insulin secretion by modeling in multiple-meal tests: role of potentiationAndrea Mari
C N R National Research Council Institute of Systems Science and Biomedical Engineering, Padua, Italy
Diabetes 51:S221-6. 2002..Use of the model in patients with type 2 diabetes retrieves known defects in insulin secretion but also uncovers new facets of beta-cell dysfunction... - Insulin infusion during normoglycemia modulates insulin secretion according to whole-body insulin sensitivityChristian Anderwald
Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
Diabetes Care 34:437-41. 2011..Thus, we aimed to evaluate short-term effects of human insulin infusion on insulin secretion during normoglycemia in healthy humans and T2DM subjects of both sex... - A Markov chain probability model of glucose tolerance in post gestational diabetes follow up studyAngela Grassi
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Italian National Research Council, Padova, Italy
Stud Health Technol Inform 160:1155-9. 2010..Women with normal glucose tolerance after partum will have a high probability (0.80) to be in the same state three years after... - Relationships between insulin secretion after intravenous and oral glucose administration in subjects with glucose tolerance ranging from normal to overt diabetesA Mari
C N R Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Padua, Italy
Diabet Med 25:671-7. 2008..To elucidate this phenomenon, we examined the relationships between fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and the secretory responses to an IVGTT and an oral glucose test (OGTT)... - Impaired beta cell glucose sensitivity rather than inadequate compensation for insulin resistance is the dominant defect in glucose intoleranceA Mari
ISIB CNR, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padua, Italy
Diabetologia 53:749-56. 2010..e. impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose... - An empirical index of insulin sensitivity from short IVGTT: validation against the minimal model and glucose clamp indices in patients with different clinical characteristicsA Tura
Metabolic Unit, ISIB CNR, 35127 Padova, Italy
Diabetologia 53:144-52. 2010..However minimal model analysis requires a 3 h test and relevant expertise to run the mathematical model. The aim of this study was to suggest a simple predictor of minimal model analysis index using only 1 h IVGTT... - The inter- and intra-operator variability in manual spot segmentation and its effect on spot quantitation in two-dimensional electrophoresis analysisRenato Millioni
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Chair of Metabolism, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Electrophoresis 31:1739-42. 2010..For comparative studies, we suggest separately analysing spots which have been manually segmented by imposing a requirement for at least a threefold difference in spot intensity in addition to use of statistical tests... - Improved usability of the minimal model of insulin sensitivity based on an automated approach and genetic algorithms for parameter estimationUmberto Morbiducci
Department of Mechanics, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Clin Sci (Lond) 112:257-63. 2007.... - Increased plasma amylin in type 1 diabetic patients after kidney and pancreas transplantation: A sign of impaired beta-cell function?Marietta Stadler
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Metabolic Diseases and Nutrition, Vienna
Diabetes Care 29:1031-8. 2006..After successful pancreas-kidney transplantation (PKT), type 1 diabetic patients may revert to a nondiabetic metabolism without exogenous insulin therapy and re-secrete all beta-cell hormones... - Improvement of insulin resistance and early atherosclerosis in patients after gastric bandingUrsula Hanusch-Enserer
Department of Internal Medicine V, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria
Obes Res 12:284-91. 2004..To evaluate the effect of massive weight loss on insulin sensitivity, soluble adhesion molecules, and markers of the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS)... - Increased intramyocellular lipid concentration identifies impaired glucose metabolism in women with previous gestational diabetesAlexandra Kautzky-Willer
Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Vienna, Austria
Diabetes 52:244-51. 2003..IMCL could serve as an additional parameter of increased diabetes risk because it identifies insulin-resistant pGDM and those who were diagnosed earlier and/or required insulin during pregnancy... - Visfatin response to glucose is reduced in women with gestational diabetes mellitusDominik G Haider
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Diabetes Care 30:1889-91. 2007 - Impaired vascular nitric oxide bioactivity in women with previous gestational diabetesJohannes Pleiner
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Wien Klin Wochenschr 119:483-9. 2007..The aim of this study was therefore to identify factors other than GDM that impair vascular function... - Common variants of the novel type 2 diabetes genes CDKAL1 and HHEX/IDE are associated with decreased pancreatic beta-cell functionLaura Pascoe
Diabetes Research Group, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Diabetes 56:3101-4. 2007..Our objective was to explore the relationships between the diabetes-associated alleles and measures of beta-cell function and whole-body insulin sensitivity...