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H. R. Frigeri, Santos, I. C. R., Réa, R. R., Almeida, A. C. R., Fadel-Picheth, C. M. T., Pedrosa, F. O., Souza, E. M., Rego, F. G. M., and Picheth, G., Low prevalence of glucokinase gene mutations in gestational diabetic patients with good glycemic control, vol. 11, pp. 1433-1441, 2012.
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Gestational diabetes mellitus screening based on the gene chip technique. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 89: 167-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2010.04.001 PMid:20554072   Magnuson MA and Shelton KD (1989). An alternate promoter in the glucokinase gene is active in the pancreatic beta cell. J. Biol. Chem. 264: 15936-15942. PMid:2550428   Marcinkevage JA and Narayan KM (2011). Gestational diabetes mellitus: taking it to heart. Prim. Care Diabetes 5: 81-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2010.10.002 PMid:21106447   Matschinsky FM (2009). Assessing the potential of glucokinase activators in diabetes therapy. Nat. Rev. Drug. Discov. 8: 399-416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrd2850 PMid:19373249   Matschinsky FM and Ellerman JE (1968). Metabolism of glucose in the islets of Langerhans. J. Biol. Chem. 243: 2730-2736. PMid:4870741   Matschinsky FM, Magnuson MA, Zelent D, Jetton TL, et al. (2006). 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Pract. 79: 433-437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2007.10.015 PMid:18045723   Rose CS, Ek J, Urhammer SA, Glumer C, et al. (2005). A -30G>A polymorphism of the beta-cell-specific glucokinase promoter associates with hyperglycemia in the general population of whites. Diabetes 54: 3026-3031. http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.54.10.3026 PMid:16186409   Rosenberg TJ, Garbers S, Lipkind H and Chiasson MA (2005). Maternal obesity and diabetes as risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes: differences among 4 racial/ethnic groups. Am. J. Public. Health 95: 1545-1551. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.065680 PMid:16118366 PMCid:1449396   Rubio-Cabezas O, Klupa T and Malecki MT (2011). Permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus - the importance of diabetes differential diagnosis in neonates and infants. Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 41: 323-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2362.2010.02409.x PMid:21054355   Ruzzo A, Andreoni F and Magnani M (1998). Structure of the human hexokinase type I gene and nucleotide sequence of the 5' flanking region. Biochem. J. 331 (Pt 2): 607-613. PMid:9531504 PMCid:1219395   Santos IC, Daga DR, Frigeri HR, Rea RR, et al. (2010a). The functional polymorphisms -429T>C and -374T>A of the RAGE gene promoter are not associated with gestational diabetes in Euro-Brazilians. Genet. Mol. Res. 9: 1130-1135. http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/vol9-2gmr817 PMid:20568058   Santos IC, Frigeri HR, Rea RR, Almeida AC, et al. (2010b). The glucokinase gene promoter polymorphism -30G>A (rs1799884) is associated with fasting glucose in healthy pregnant women but not with gestational diabetes. Clin. Chim. Acta 411: 892-893. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2010.03.011 PMid:20227404   Schmidt MI, Matos MC, Reichelt AJ, Forti AC, et al. (2000). Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus - do the new WHO criteria make a difference? Brazilian Gestational Diabetes Study Group. Diabet. Med. 17: 376-380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1464-5491.2000.00257.x PMid:10872537   Souza RL, Mikami LR, Maegawa RO and Chautard-Freire-Maia EA (2005). Four new mutations in the BCHE gene of human butyrylcholinesterase in a Brazilian blood donor sample. Mol. Genet. Metab. 84: 349-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgme.2004.12.005 PMid:15781196   Stoffel M, Froguel P, Takeda J, Zouali H, et al. (1992). Human glucokinase gene: isolation, characterization, and identification of two missense mutations linked to early-onset non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 89: 7698-7702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.16.7698 PMid:1502186 PMCid:49778   Tinto N, Zagari A, Capuano M, De Simone A, et al. (2008). Glucokinase gene mutations: structural and genotype-phenotype analyses in MODY children from South Italy. PLoS One 3: e1870.   Weedon MN, Frayling TM, Shields B, Knight B, et al. (2005). Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase gene. Diabetes 54: 576-581. http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.54.2.576 PMid:15677518
2011
F. A. Oliveira, Paludo, K. S., Arend, L. N. V. S., Farah, S. M. S. S., Pedrosa, F. O., Souza, E. M., Surek, M., Picheth, G., and Fadel-Picheth, C. M. T., Virulence characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains, vol. 10, pp. 4114-4125, 2011.
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G. S. Magnani, Didonet, C. M., Cruz, L. M., Picheth, C. F., Pedrosa, F. O., and Souza, E. M., Diversity of endophytic bacteria in Brazilian sugarcane, vol. 9, pp. 250-258, 2010.
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