News tagged with transplanted islets
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.
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Use of pancreatic islets show promise in diabetes research, treatments
Apr 14, 2009 |
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The use of pancreatic islets (hormone-producing cells) is increasing in diabetes research and may play an important role in future treatments, according to an article in the April 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on diabet ...
Fresh polymer coat offers diabetes hope
Mar 23, 2007 |
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More than 12 million people worldwide are afflicted with Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which insulin-producing pancreatic islets are damaged, thereby impeding the body’s ability to regulate glucose concentrations ...
Immune cell entry into the pancreatic islets key to understanding type 1 diabetes origins
Oct 08, 2009 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes.
Studies test new approaches to islet transplantation
May 01, 2008 |
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Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes. ...
New nanotube sensor can continuously monitor minute amounts of insulin
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 15, 2008 |
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A new method that uses nanotechnology to rapidly measure minute amounts of insulin is a major step toward developing the ability to assess the health of the body’s insulin-producing cells in real time.
Transplanted coral growing fast in lagoon off Okinawa coast
Feb 07, 2009 |
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Baby coral transplanted in the Sekisei coral-reef lagoon in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture under a coral-reef regeneration program are growing steadily, according to the Environment Ministry and the Tokyo University of Marine ...
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 ...
Device protects transplanted pancreatic cells from the immune system
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine have demonstrated in mice that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells are protected ...
Single adult stem cell can self renew, repair tissue damage in live mammal
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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The first demonstration that a single adult stem cell can self-renew in a mammal was reported at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2008 in San Francisco.
Major breakthrough in transplantation immunity
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have made a discovery that may one day remove the need for a lifetime of toxic immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplants.
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