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    The quest for more research on painful diabetic neuropathy.
        
        Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.09.023 (2017)
    
    
    
	    IBRO. A 62-year-old diabetologist diagnosed himself to have diabetes type-2, with an HbA1c of 9.5. Five months after lifestyle intervention and a multi-drug approach, HbA1c was 6.3, systolic blood pressure was below 135. mmHg and BMI reduced to 27. But he suffered from severe painful diabetic neuropathy. Therefore he decided to visit his friend, a famous neuroscientist at an even more famous university. He asked him several plain questions: 1. What is the natural course of painful diabetic neuropathy? 2. Why do I have, despite almost normalizing HbA1c, more problems than before? 3. Are you sure my problems are due to diabetes or should we do a nerve biopsy? 4. Are there imaging techniques helpful for the diagnosis of this diabetic complication, starting in the distal nerve endings of the foot and slowly moving ahead? 5. Can you suggest any drug, specific and effective, for relieving painful diabetic neuropathy?This review will use the experts' answers to the questions of the diabetologist, not only to give a summary of the current knowledge, but even more to highlight areas of research needed for improving the fate of patients with painful diabetic neuropathy. Based on the unknowns, which exceed the knowns in diabetic neuropathy, a quest for more public support of research is made.
	
	
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        Publication type
        Article: Journal article
    
 
    
        Document type
        Scientific Article
    
 
     
    
    
        Keywords
        Painful Diabetic Neuropathy ; Patho-mechanisms of Diabetic Neuropathy
    
 
     
    
    
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        Publication Year
        2017
    
 
     
    
        HGF-reported in Year
        2017
    
 
    
    
        ISSN (print) / ISBN
        0306-4522
    
 
    
        e-ISSN
        1873-7544
    
 
    
     
     
	     
	 
	 
    
        Journal
        Neuroscience
    
 
	
     
    
         
        
            Publisher
            International Brain Research Organization, Elsevier
        
 
         
	
         
         
         
         
         
	
         
         
         
    
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
    
        Reviewing status
        Peer reviewed
    
 
    
        Institute(s)
        Institute of Diabetes and Cancer (IDC)
    
 
    
        POF-Topic(s)
        90000 - German Center for Diabetes Research
    
 
    
        Research field(s)
        Helmholtz Diabetes Center
    
 
    
        PSP Element(s)
        G-501900-251
    
 
     
     	
    
        PubMed ID
        28942323
    
    
    
        Scopus ID
        85030650773
    
    
        Erfassungsdatum
        2017-10-18