Sentences with phrase «human diabetes therapies»

Over the last years we have built up national and international collaborations to obtain acute human tissue, giving us the unique opportunity to employ our techniques for the investigation of human diabetes therapies.

Not exact matches

If the therapy can be improved and shown to work well in humans, it could be an entirely new way to help battle obesity, diabetes and related conditions.

The promise of autoantigen - specific therapy for prevention of type 1 diabetes in humans has yet to be realized.

«The addition of osteocalcin as a metabolic regulator may one day lead to novel therapies, but we need to understand much better how it works and how it fits into physiology before such therapies can be attempted in humans,» says endocrinologist Mitch Lazar, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania.

«ViaCyte was the first to differentiate human stem cells into glucose - responsive, insulin - producing cells, and now we are running the first and only clinical trials of stem cell - derived islet replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.

They describe gene therapy administered through skin transplants to treat two related and extremely common human ailments: type - 2 diabetes and obesity.

«This collaboration combines Dr. Yamanaka's human iPS cells and Novocell's hES cell differentiation and encapsulation technologies to explore the creation of next generation diabetes cell therapies,» said Emmanuel Baetge, Chief Scientific Officer of Novocell, Inc..

These highly competitive funds enable UCSF scientists to pursue research aimed at advancing understanding of human health and disease, and developing new therapies for neurological diseases, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a host of other conditions.

San Diego, CA (March 31, 2009)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced that it has received U.S. Patent 7,510,876 with claims covering human definitive endoderm cells, an essential cell for generating not only pancreatic type cells, which Novocell is developing for use as a cell therapy for diabetes, but also other endoderm lineage - derived tissues and organs such as lungs, intestine, liver, thymus and thyroid.

For human tissue regeneration to become a viable therapy for conditions like neurodegeneration or diabetes, clinicians will likely need to artificially manipulate factors that return adult brain or pancreatic cells to a cellular «Tir Nan Og» to restore adult cell types.

Peripheral Neuropathy: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Alternative Therapies Alternative Medicine Review 2006 (Dec); 11 (4): 294 - 329 ~ FULL TEXT Peripheral neuropathy (PN), associated with diabetes, neurotoxic chemotherapy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / antiretroviral drugs, alcoholism, nutrient deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, and other etiologies, results in significant morbidity.

Peripheral Neuropathy: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Alternative Therapies Alternative Medicine Review 2006 (Dec); 11 (4): 294 — 329 ~ FULL TEXT Peripheral neuropathy (PN), associated with diabetes, neurotoxic chemotherapy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / antiretroviral drugs, alcoholism, nutrient deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, and other etiologies, results in significant morbidity.

Donations made to the TGen Foundation will be used to fund TGen's research needs for improving human health by helping scientists discover new treatments, therapies and cures for many diseases such as autism, melanoma, pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, diabetes and others.

Unlike humans, the most common form of diabetes found in canines is type I. Dogs with type I diabetes require insulin therapy to ensure the body continues producing enough insulin.

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Unlike in humans, oral diabetes drugs are not generally effective for feline patients, so are rarely the recommended therapy.