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Diabetes Drug Januvia May Trigger Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer
in Daily Diabetic, on April 30, 2009
... A new study from UCLA's Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center found that the type 2 diabetes drug sitagliptin - sold in pill form as Januvia - could lead to a form of low-grade panc...
A New Source of Insulin-Producing Cells?
in Daily Diabetic, on November 25, 2008
...san Bonner-Weir, Ph.D., the study's lead researcher and a Senior Investigator in the Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology at Joslin and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medi...
Stem Cell Therapy Against Diabetes: A Breakthrough!
in Daily Diabetic, on February 21, 2008
...y human tests could begin.
Doctors are already experimenting with transplants of insulin-producing islet cells from cadavers for patients with Type 1 diabetes, a disease that destroys a person's ...
'Laziness' of Regulatory T-cells, Lead to Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on January 18, 2008
... the onset of type 1 diabetes .
In diabetes mellitus, or type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing beta islet cells in the pancreas are attacked and destroyed by the body's own immune system.
Patien...
Menin: Cause of Gestational Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on December 31, 2007
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Some women develop diabetes during pregnancy ( gestational diabetes ) when the islets cells don't multiply and the body cannot meet the increased demand for insulin - thereby resulting t...
Best Source of Insulin-producing Islets for Diabetes Treatment: Living Donors
in Daily Diabetic, on November 27, 2007
...If you do not know already, islet cells - clusters of insulin-producing pancreatic cells - even from pigs, have been successfully improved the insulin levels of insulin-dependent diabetics (type...
Menin: Pancreatic Protein Providing Clues to Gestational Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 5, 2007
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers may have a chance in elucidating the mechanism by which diabetes develops during pregnancy ( gestational diabetes ), in their discovered pancreatic protein called menin .
The pancreatic protein menin was already known to have a role in preve...
Diabecell Capsule: Update on the Pig Islet Cells against Diabetes Research
in Daily Diabetic, on October 23, 2007
...If you search this blog for pig islet cell transplantation, the following entries will be generated:
Pig Islet Cell May Help Solve Diabetes Problem
Lab-grown Insulin-producing Cells: A Bre...
Hormone Leptin Has Potential Role in Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on October 5, 2007
...d energy metabolism.
Now, it has been found by a new Joslin-led study to play a major role in islet cell growth and insulin secretion.
According to Rohit N. Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., principal in...
Tissue Engineering and Immunology Protocols, on Video
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 19, 2007
...ps for manipulating cell-cell interaction
Elliot Hui and Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT)
Murine Pancreatic Islet Isolation
Gregory L. Szot, Pavel Koudria, Jeffrey A. Bluestone (UCSF)
A gradient-generating...
Protein Plaques and Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on September 13, 2007
...re is also a protein plaque implicated in type 2 diabetes: an abnormal, misfolded protein called islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) - which damage and destroy insulin-producing "islet"...
Identification: Mechanism of Genetic Predisposition to Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 3, 2007
...es. The susceptibility variants were associated with increased expression of TCF7L2 in pancreatic islet cells and decreased islet cell secretion of insulin.
Consistent with this, ectopic over...
Oral Insulin Being Tested In Clinical Trials
in Daily Diabetic, on June 3, 2007
...al insulin have suggested that might delay type 1 diabetes for about four years in some people with islet cell autoantibodies in their blood.
Introduction of insulin via the digestive is believed to ...
I Blog about Diabetes Too
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 30, 2007
...u the following very informative posts i publsihed recently at Daily Diabetic .
"Pancreatic Islet Cell Autotransplantation" Gives Hope to Surgery-Induced Diabetes
Care of Diabetic Elder...
"Pancreatic Islet Cell Autotransplantation" Gives Hope to Surgery-Induced Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on May 28, 2007
...orted a new hope for patients with pancreatogenic diabetes - a procedure called "pancreatic islet cell autotransplantation" .
The procedure involves isolation and purification of i...
Glimpse into Protein Structures Will Give Away Clues to Causes of Diabetes, Alzheimer's disease
in Daily Diabetic, on May 18, 2007
... human protein implicated in type 2 diabetes.
The said human protein is the protein hIAPP (human islet amyloid polypeptide), found in toxic clumps and is normally produced by the very same cells th...
Pig Islet Cells May Help Solve Diabetes Problem
in Daily Diabetic, on April 4, 2007
...dings will pave way to future research that will determine if other diabetics will benefit from pig islets cells. Living Cell Technologies (LCT) hopes to conduct small-scale clinical trials in Russia ...
Diabetes Cure is One-step Away as 'Medical-Grade' Pigs Populate DRWF Islet Resource Facility
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 28, 2007
...tes Research & Wellness Foundation (DRWF) and constructed by Ryan Companies, U.S., the DRWF islet Resource Facility is a biosecure animal facility in Western Wisconsin that will breed an...
It's Been Quite A Year For Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on December 22, 2006
...esearchers focused on diabetes risk factors , prevention, and cutting edge therapies, such as islet-cell transplants. ...
Link Between Type 1 Diabetes And Nerves
in Daily Diabetic, on December 14, 2006
... flawed response from the immune system was understood to be the reason behind the damage caused to islet cells in the pancreas where insulin is produced.
A recent research conducted by Canadian scie...
New Data Supports Spleen Cell 'Cure' For Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 29, 2006
...e but were inconclusive on the role of spleen cells in the recovery of insulin-producing pancreatic islets. The new data from a study performed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published as...
Islet Cell Transplants Help Type 1 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on July 30, 2006
...s as though there is always a new diabetes treatment or experiment in the works. One of these is an islet cell transplant, developed to improve the health of Type 1 diabetics.
In the transplant, cell...
Cadavers Used To Temporarily Reverse Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2006
...any people are willing to do just that, with an experimental procedure that harvests thousands of islets from cadavers, and injects them into diabetes patients. Islets are cells in the pancreas that...
Lab-grown Insulin-Producing Cells: A Breakthrough in Diabetes Research
in Daily Diabetic, on March 28, 2006
... of pig pancreatic insulin-producing cells that has set the stage for the large-scale production of islet-like structures containing insulin-producing cells. The study was funded by the New York-based...
Could Pigs Be The New Soldiers In Fighting Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on February 21, 2006
...a result of the research, "a critical milestone has been met."
This discovery could make islet cell - a pancreatic cell that produces hormones such as insulin and glucagon - transplantation...
Diabetes Therapy Through Islet Cells Xenotransplantation
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 20, 2006
...Creative Reporter . Type 1 diabetes in humans has been successfully reversed by researchers using islet transplantation. However, the demand for islet cells grossly outweighs the supply. Researchers...