Nerve Glucose, Fructose, Sorbitol,myo-Inositol, and Fiber Degeneration and Regeneration in Diabetic Neuropathy

Abstract
We measured the alcohol sugars in sural nerves from 11 controls, 21 conventionally treated patients with diabetes and neuropathy, and 4 diabetics without neuropathy. The results were related to metabolic control and to clinical, neuropathological, and morphometric abnormalities in the nerves.