Diabetes cure progresses through the use of stem cells
03/17/2009 4:51 a.m.
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The definitive cure of diabetes through stem cell transplantation could be closer and closer, after a team of researchers has found a chemical compound that can turn them into beta cells capable of segregating insulin.Keep reading the ariculo
Once these cells were generated, the researchers were implanted to mice through a renal capsule and observed that they could create a significant number of living cells generating insulin.
This finding is an important step in the creation of beta cells, the great object of desire of scientists in the development of the cure of this metabolic disease.
Beta cells are a type of pancreas cells found in the so -called "Langerhans islets" and are responsible for segregating and synthesizing insulin, a hormone that controls blood glucose levels.
The insulin creation process is carried out at different stages: first the proinsulin is built, a precursor of insulin, which is later synthesized by beta cells by enzymatic substration of the C.
Beta cells are the first to disappear in patients suffering from type 1 diabetes known as youth diabetes, once the body's immune system itself has destroyed them by an autoimmune process.
In type 2 diabetes, the insulin produced by the beta cells of the pancreas acts incorrectly or is scarce.
03/17/2009 4:51 a.m.
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Any researcher can certify that the autoimmune process does not appear again?:-/
As much as we will regenerate beta cells, if at 3-5 years the body becomes an idiot again and the cells are loaded again. We do not advance anything: ??
Why does nobody ever answer this issue?
03/17/2009 11:32 a.m.