Sentences with phrase «destroys cells of the pancreas»

With type 1.5 diabetes an autoimmune reaction destroys cells of the pancreas, but the pancreas still secretes insulin — autoimmune damage is not advanced enough to shut down insulin function.

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This type of diabetes strikes in the early teenage years and begins with the immune system destroying the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, according to Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London.

Usually, the body's own immune system — which normally fights harmful bacteria and viruses — mistakenly destroys the insulin - producing (islet, or islets of Langerhans) cells in the pancreas.

In this type of diabetes, the body destroys insulin - producing cells in the pancreas, resulting in high blood glucose levels.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

Ultimately, the team hopes to inject BMP - 7 directly into the pancreas to stimulate the creation of new beta cells, allied with a small amount of immunosuppressive drugs to stop the new insulin factories being destroyed by the immune system.

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and destroys insulin - producing cells in the islets of the pancreas.

In the case of type 1 diabetes, it destroys the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas, and in multiple sclerosis it strikes the central nervous system.

Like the childhood form, the insulin - producing beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed by the body's own immune system.

* In type 1 diabetes, the insulin - producing cells in the Langerhans islets of the pancreas are destroyed because they are attacked by the body's immune system (formation of islet autoantibodies against structures of the beta cells).

The deficit is most pronounced in type 1 diabetes, which develops when insulin - producing beta - cells of the pancreas are destroyed.

It is an autoimmune disease caused by cells of the immune system mistakenly attacking and destroying the insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

With time, the processes involved in amyloid formation can also destroy the ß beta cells of the cat's pancreas.

A number of mechanisms are responsible for decreased insulin secretion or resistance, but most involve destroying islet cells, the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin.

Likewise, when many of the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas are destroyed, diabetes mellitus or «sugar diabetes» will occur and insulin therapy will be required.