Not exact matches
Diabetes researchers are considering various replacements for insulin injections:
Transplanting new pancreatic
islet cells that
make insulin, coaxing the patient's own
islets to regenerate, or treating diabetics early in the disease with immune - suppressing therapies to prevent their body from destroying the rest of their pancreatic
islets.
Using the material and protein combination, the researchers evaluated multiple locations for implanting the
islet cell clusters, the first time such a direct comparison of
transplant sites has been
made.
«The loss of insulin - producing beta
cells leads to type 1 diabetes,
making it an ideal target for
cell replacement therapy,» said James Shapiro, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Director of the Clinical
Islet Transplant Program, University of Alberta.