What is fluoroacetate diabetes?

Reichelt, H.

Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 34(15): 401-404

1979


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542
PMID: 160686
Document Number: 150392
The opinion is incorrect that the monofluor carbon-induced hyperglucosaemia which in literature is cited under the term fluor acetate diabetes is caused by insulin deficiency due to lesion of the pancreatic beta-cells. The cause of the fluor acetate diabetes is a disturbance of the glucose degradation by inhibition of the enzyme phosphofructokinase. Insulin applications have no causal influence on the monofluor carbon intoxications and no symptomatic influence on the fluor acetate diabetes.

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