Sentences with phrase «creating cells in the pancreas»

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks and destroys insulin - creating cells in the pancreas.

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On Wednesday, scientists reported in Nature that they had created mouse - rat chimeras — also starting with mouse pluripotent stem cells and fertilized rat eggs — in which the pancreases were sufficiently mouse - like that, when cells from them were transplanted into mice with diabetes, they churned out insulin and reversed the disease.

«Novocell is a leader in differentiation of stem cells to create functional islet cells of the pancreas, and this broad patent significantly enhances our proprietary position and further secures our investment in the development of a diabetes cell therapy and potentially other endoderm - derived cell products,» said Edward Baetge, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Novocell.

The glucose, like all of the nutrients, soon gets absorbed into the bloodstream creating a peak in what we call «blood sugar levels», which results with the releasing of more insulin from the pancreas in order to push glucose to the cells, basically «commanding» the cells to open up and absorb it, where it gets used as an energy source.

Insulin is a hormone created by the pancreas, which must be present in order for glucose to get into our cells (used by the body as food).

Most, if not all dogs have type 1 diabetes, which means that the cells in the pancreas which create insulin have become completely dead or non-functioning.