1. Bedside glucose monitoring: can it be a real, alternative in the daily hospital routine

   • P. Micossi

   Editorial Pages: 211 - 212

2. Evaluation of bedside blood glucose monitoring by the phlebotomy team in an acute general care hospital

   • J. M. Johnston
   • P. Grondziowski
   • L. Lytle

   Hospital Management Pages: 213 - 216

3. Impact of metabolic activity of beta cells on cytokine-induced damage and recovery of rat pancreatic islets

   • A. Dunger
   • D. Schröder
   • S. Schmidt

   Originals Pages: 217 - 224

4. Renal growth during pregnancy in insulin-dependent diabetic women

   • F. F. Lauszus
   • J. G. Klebe
   • T. Christensen

   Originals Pages: 225 - 229

5. Effect of insulin on renal sodium handling and renal haemodynamics in insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus patients

   • P. Stenvinkel
   • A. Ottosson-Seeberger
   • J. Bolinder

   Originals Pages: 230 - 234

6. Glucose metabolism and left ventricular dysfunction are normalized by insulin and islet transplantation in mild diabetes in the rat

   • D. Stroedter
   • T. Schmidt
   • K. Federlin

   Originals Pages: 235 - 243

7. Intestinally derived lipoprotein particles in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with and without hypertriglyceridaemia

   • A. Curtin
   • P. Deegan
   • G. H. Tomkin

   Originals Pages: 244 - 250

8. Apolipoprotein AI-CIII-AIV genetic polymorphisms and coronary heart disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus

   • L. Rigoli
   • G. Raimondo
   • D. Cucinotta

   Originals Pages: 251 - 256

9. Quantitation of insulin stores in Langerhans islets by combined immunohistochemistry and computerized microspectrophotometric analysis

   • R. L. Pérez
   • A. Renauld

   Originals Pages: 257 - 262

10. Angiopathy affects circulating endothelin-1 levels in type 2 diabetic patients

    • F. Perfetto
    • R. Tarquini
    • B. Tarquini

    Originals Pages: 263 - 267

11. Epidemiology of known diabetes in Lombardy, north Italy

    • M. P. Garancini
    • A. Sergi
    • G. Gallus

    Originals Pages: 268 - 272

12. A novel mechanism of glipizide sulfonylurea action: decreased metabolic clearance rate of insulin

    • N. Barzilai
    • P. -H. Groop
    • R. A. DeFronzo

    Originals Pages: 273 - 278

13. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 278 - 278

14. Effects of Acipimox on the metabolism of free fatty acids and very low density lipoprotein triglyceride

    • J. S. Hannah
    • N. L. Bodkin
    • B. C. Hansen

    Preliminary Communication Pages: 279 - 283

15. List of referees

    Legacy Pages: 284 - 284