Plenary lectures - recent studies in experimental diabetic neuropathy, P.A. Low, two separate mechanisms for the glucose inhibition of myo-inositol transport, T.C. Hohman and H. Moo Kwon, clinical investigation of epalrestat, an aldose reductase inhibitor on diabetic neuropathy in Japan multi-centre study, N. Hotta et al; educational lectures - a history of diabetic neuropathy in the 19th century, J.D. Ward; nerve blood flow - effects of aminoguanidine on vasculature and nerves of streptozotocin-diabetic rats, M. Dewhurst et at, effects of endothelin receptor antagonism on peripheral nerve function in experimental diabetes, E.J. Stevens and D.R. Tomlinson; nerve growth factors and others - a role for insulin in small sensory nerve function in man, C.A. Delaney et al, abnormal intramuscular nerve sprouting after partial denervation in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats, M. Terada et al; metabolism - effects of alpha-lipoic acid and glutathione on systemic and sciatic nerve antioxidant levels in experimental diabetes, P.S. van Dam et al, pharmacological evidence suggesting compromised cyclo-oxygenase activity in the streptozotocin model of diabetic neuropathy, P.O.O. Julu and G.A. Jamal, effect of a AL-01576 on brain neurotransmission in STZ-diabetic and galactose-fed rats, I. Obrosova et al, microvascular and metabolic abnormalities in the spontaneously diabetic dog, R.A. Malik et al; electrophysiologic measurements and correlation - changes in foot loading and pressure patterns during standing of patients with diabetic neuropathy, P. Schaff et al, impaired sensory nerve function in insulin resistant rats, C.A. Delaney et al, newly developed method to assess autonomic nerve function in diabetic patients, T. Matsuoka et al; clinical trials - clinical and neurophysiological effects of epalrestat on diabetic neuropathy, M. Ikezawa et al, effect of intracavernous injection with papaverine on diabetic impotence in Japan, Y. Takahashi et al, sensorimotor neuropathy and cardiac autonomic function tests in fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes (FCPD), A.K. Das amd R. Govindan.
