News tagged with islet
Stem cells crucial to diabetes cure in mice
Mar 16, 2009 |
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More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin.
Researchers explore curing diabetes with animal transplants
Feb 01, 2009 |
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The descendents of Abraham are ready. They were born inside a cinderblock bubble in an anonymous building surrounded by fields in western Wisconsin.
High blood sugar's impact on immune system holds clues to improving islet cell transplants
Dec 17, 2008 |
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A biological tit for tat may hold clues to improving the success of islet cell transplants intended to cure type 1 diabetes, according to a Medical College of Georgia scientist.
Researchers identify new source of insulin-producing cells
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells, a finding that contradicts ...
New technique eliminates toxic drugs in islet transplant in diabetic mice
Nov 20, 2008 |
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The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.
Well-known drug (AAT) could overcome obstacles to islet transplantation
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel have demonstrated that treating diabetic animals with alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) following an islet transplantation procedure eliminates the inflammation ...


