Sentences with phrase «insulin after a transplant»

A US - Brazilian project with 23 patients found most were able to produce their own insulin after a transplant of stem cells from their own bone marrow.

A study has found that type 2 diabetes patients receiving self - donated bone marrow stem cell transplants required less insulin after the transplants

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Now, six years after insulin - producing cells were first transplanted into people with diabetes, results from the largest trial yet of the «Edmonton protocol» are in.

Participants who still needed insulin 75 days after transplant were eligible for another islet infusion.

Patients recently diagnosed with type 1diabetes who received transplants of their own immune stem cells were able to go without insulin injections for nearly five years after the procedure, scientists report today.

Lysy says that because the insulin - producing cells originate from pancreatic tissue there is less risk that they will turn cancerous after the transplant.

Well - known examples include insulin, which comprises 51 amino acid building blocks and controls the metabolism of sugar, or cyclosporine, an eleven amino acid - peptide that has been proven to suppress organ rejection after transplants.

The diabetic volunteer continued to produce insulin one year after she received a transplant of abdominal islet cells.