Sentences with phrase «diseased cells in the pancreas»

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The disease commonly starts in childhood and causes the body's own immune system to attack and destroy the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas, leaving the patient dependent on life - long insulin injections.

Since the late 1990s, researchers have been trying — and mostly failing — to accomplish this in type 1 diabetes, an immune disease that destroys cells in the pancreas that make insulin and that mostly strikes children.

The disease begins when a person's own antibodies attack the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas.

As such, scientists hypothesise that cathelicidins may be involved in the control of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where certain cells in the immune system attack beta cells in the pancreas which secrete insulin.

Ron McKay and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, usually focus on brain development, but they were intrigued by recent papers reporting that some pancreas cells express nestin, a protein typical of developing neural cells.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body destroys its own beta cells in the pancreas.

While that might seem to implicate the mother cells in the disease, Nelson and her colleagues learned otherwise when they looked at the pancreases, removed during autopsy, of four individuals, including one diabetic.

Type 1 diabetes is a disease caused by the destruction of the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas.

Stem cells can morph to take on any role in the body, making them theoretically useful to treat conditions ranging from type 1 diabetes (replacing insulin - producing cells in the pancreas) to heart disease (taking over for damaged heart cells).

In this disorder, which is a so - called autoimmune disease, the body's own defences attack and destroy the insulin - producing cells (called beta cells) in the pancreaIn this disorder, which is a so - called autoimmune disease, the body's own defences attack and destroy the insulin - producing cells (called beta cells) in the pancreain the pancreas.

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.

IgA plasma cell infiltration of proximal respiratory tract, pancreas, kidney, and coronary artery in acute Kawasaki disease

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

• Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, lung, gallbladder and stomach.2 - 6 • Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.7 • Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract, including an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.8 - 12 • Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.13 • Sugar can cause food allergies.14 • Sugar contributes to obesity.15

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

This insulin resistance then requires the pancreas to secrete more and more insulin to overcome this resistance which leads to higher and higher insulin levels which leads to more and more deposition of fat into fat cells resulting in obesity as well as metabolic syndrome which entails diabetes, hypertension, and vascular disease, ie heart disease and strokes.

IDDM can also be triggered by infectious virus diseases, immune deficiencies that result in destruction of the insulin - producing cells in the pancreas, pancreatic infections, steroids and reproductive hormones, and Cushing's disease.

Dr Jean W Dodds, writing in US Dog World, March, 1995, (16) states: «Immune — suppressant viruses of the retrovirus and parvovirus classes have recently been implicated as causes of bone marrow failure, immune - mediated blood diseases, haematologic malignancies (lymphoma and leukemia), dysregulation of humoral and cell - mediated immunity, organ failure (liver, kidney) and autoimmune endocrine disorders — especially of the thyroid gland (thyroiditis), adrenal gland (Addison's disease) and pancreas (diabetes).

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