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Seen that? - Generic Allegra from Mylan Laboratories
in Allergies, on October 16, 2009
...iet alone is not sufficient, but with different mechanisms of action: glipizide by stimulating the pancreas to secrete insulin and helping the body use insulin efficiently while metformin hydrochlorid...
MRI Can Be A Tool in The Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 7, 2009
...d in type two diabetes and almost gone in type one. We are also able to detect inflammation of the pancreas and vascular changes associated with type one and type two diabetes. This opens a huge area ...
Onglyza: New Diabetes Drug, Approved By The FDA
in Daily Diabetic, on August 2, 2009
...increasing the body's utilisation of sugar, mainly through increasing insulin production in the pancreas and by reducing the liver's production of glucose.
Onglyza is a product of AstraZene...
Genetic Test for Cystic Fibrosis in Embryos
in Next Nine Months, on July 13, 2009
... and sweat, which leads to various diseases of the lungs, sinuses, gastrointestinal system, liver, pancreas, and may even result to infertility especially among males. Although it is relatively rare, ...
Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??
in Daily Diabetic, on June 22, 2009
... just a little apprehensive that intensification of treatment doesn't have side effects o your pancreas, liver of even your kidney.
What do you think?
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Diabetes Drug Januvia May Trigger Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer
in Daily Diabetic, on April 30, 2009
...ch Center at UCLA found that sitagliptin, sold in pill form as Januvia, caused abnormalities in the pancreas that are recognized as risk factors for pancreatitis and, with time, pancreatic cancer in h...
Stem Cell Transplantation Benefits Type 1 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on April 14, 2009
...l evidence indicates that there is an inverse association between beta-cell (a type of cell in the pancreas that secretes insulin) preservation and function and chronic complications of type 1 diabete...
A New Source of Insulin-Producing Cells?
in Daily Diabetic, on November 25, 2008
...ing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells.
According to Susan Bonner-Weir, Ph.D., the study's lead rese...
Insulin-Producing Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 22, 2008
...g cells have the same sub-cellular structures as the insulin-producing cells naturally found in the pancreas, were highly effective in treating diabetes in the mouse model.
Experiments by Dr Lim and ...
Allergies Protect Against Cancer
in Allergies, on November 13, 2008
...act with matter from the external environment-the mouth and throat, colon and rectum, skin, cervix, pancreas and glial brain cells. Likewise, only allergies associated with tissues that are directly e...
Maybe Leptin Can Help Against Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 27, 2008
...s glucose-lowering action appears to involve the suppression of glucagon, a hormone produced by the pancreas that raises glucose levels. Normally, glucagon is released when the glucose, or sugar, leve...
Tissue Engineering
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 24, 2008
...t Harvard Medical School, is working on more-complex self-assembling structures found in the liver, pancreas, and heart. Source: Technology Review ...
TB Vaccine Against Type 1 Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on April 5, 2008
...mmation, thereby preventing abnormal immune cells from destroying cells that produce insulin in the pancreas - which according to scientistss, might be a cure for type 1 diabetes.
Find more details f...
'Laziness' of Regulatory T-cells, Lead to Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on January 18, 2008
... 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.
Patients must inject insu...
Allergies May Protect Against Pancreatic Cancer
in Allergies, on December 31, 2007
...n than in women. There was no association between history of asthma and the risk of cancer of the pancreas .
The researchers still haven't determined the exact connection between hay fever...
Rituximab Antibody may Treat Type 1 Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 28, 2007
...th T cells of the immune system. It is T cells that destroy insulin-producing cells directly in the pancreas, leading to type 1 diabetes.
"Our paper shows, for the first time, that after success...
November Is Also Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 16, 2007
...onth , but also Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month .
Pancreatic cancer or cancer of the pancreas doesn't normally show signs or symptoms until it is too late - making it the fourth lea...
Menin: Pancreatic Protein Providing Clues to Gestational Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 5, 2007
... .
The pancreatic protein menin was already known to have a role in preventing cancer in the pancreas and other organs - when menin is present it blocks the growth of pancreatic cells, the...
Diabecell Capsule: Update on the Pig Islet Cells against Diabetes Research
in Daily Diabetic, on October 23, 2007
...anted via a capsule called Diabecell which is made from neonatal pig islet cells collected from the pancreas of disease-free pigs bred on a remote New Zealand island.
Cells are then put in coated cap...
Fourth Antibody to Detect Type 1 Diabetes, Discovered
in Daily Diabetic, on October 17, 2007
...ile diabetes) is an autoimmune disease by which the body's immune system mistakenly targets the pancreas, killing the cells (pancreatic beta cells) that make insulin.
Once the pancreatic beta ce...
Green Tea Against Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on October 3, 2007
...he green tea extract preserved insulin-producing tissue and gave other protective effects in the pancreas .
The new study, prepared by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, confirm...
SYMLIN® Pen-Injector Devices, Approved by the FDA
in Daily Diabetic, on October 2, 2007
...tic analog of human amylin (a naturally occurring hormone that is made in the beta cells of the pancreas, the same cells that make insulin).
Now, the FDA has approved the SymlinPen™ 120 and the ...
Protein Plaques and Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on September 13, 2007
...id polypeptide (IAPP) - which damage and destroy insulin-producing "islet" cells in the pancreas , thereby leading to type 2 diabetes .
The good news however, in the identification ...
Some Herbs Could Benefit Type 2 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on August 20, 2007
...no acid known as 4-hydroxyisoleucine. This compound may directly stimulate insulin release from the pancreas, but it seems to depend on how high the blood sugar is.
[In photo: Source Naturals Gy...
The Skeleton is an Endocrine Organ: Crucial Implication on Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 10, 2007
...ural protein, but rather a hormone with totally unanticipated and crucial functions - directing the pancreas' beta cells (which produce the body's supply of insulin) to produce more insulin an...
Bone as Therapeutic Target for Type 2 Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 10, 2007
..., but rather a hormone with totally unanticipated and crucial functions. Osteocalcin directs the pancreas ' beta cells, which produce the body's supply of insulin, to produce more insul...
Bad Flu Season Increased Cases of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 9, 2007
...s in childhood and is where the body's immune system attacks the insulin producing cells of the pancreas.
If left untreated it can cause uncontrolled blood glucose and ketone levels, called ketoa...
Colesevelam HCl and Sulfonylurea-based Drug Combo: Hitting Cholesterol and Glucose Levels at Once?
in Daily Diabetic, on July 9, 2007
...ulfonylureas are antidiabetic agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes that works by making the pancreas produce more insulin.
Let's just hope that once combined in a single pill, the two ing...
Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes Goes into Clinical Trials
in Daily Diabetic, on July 7, 2007
... Type 1 diabetics have a malfunctioning pancreas - either not producing enough insulin or none at all to control blood sugar, thus making the individuals (usually young juveniles) dependent on insul...
BYETTA® Can Sustain Blood Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on July 2, 2007
...ood sugar after food intake through multiple effects that work in concert on the stomach, liver, pancreas and brain.
Treatment with BYETTA® (exenatide) injection was associated with sustained blood...
Type I Diabetes Vaccine Worked in Mice
in Daily Diabetic, on May 30, 2007
...
In this severe metabolic disorder, misguided T cells of the immune system destroy the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone essential for life.
That's why the vaccine used in th...
"Pancreatic Islet Cell Autotransplantation" Gives Hope to Surgery-Induced Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on May 28, 2007
...pancreatogenic diabetes... it is a severe form of diabetes that occurs after partial removal of the pancreas.
Total or partial removal of the pancreas is recommended for patients with severe cases of...
Engineered Adult Stem Cells from Umbilical Cords Can Produce Insulin
in Daily Diabetic, on May 28, 2007
...s patients by allowing them to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas .
This particular study took almost four years to accomplish, which the researchers ha...
N-Acetylglucosamine Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 21, 2007
... attack specific tissues in the body, such as brain myelin in MS and insulin-producing cells of the pancreas in diabetes.
Together with a recent study on the use of GlcNAc in the treatment of treatme...
Grape Consumption May Protect Against Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on May 16, 2007
...n to protect against the destruction of insulin-producing cells (known as beta cells ) in the pancreas, thereby significantly reducing the incidence of diabetes...in lab rodents, however.
As r...
Supplementation of N-acetylglucosamine Inhibits Type 1 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis
in Daily Diabetic, on May 15, 2007
...attack specific tissues in the body, such as brain myelin in MS and insulin-producing cells of the pancreas in diabetes.
[Autoimmune diseases such as MS and type 1 diabetes mellitus result from poo...
Debiotech and STMicroelectronics Offer Insulin Nanopump™
in Daily Diabetic, on April 20, 2007
...ly delivers throughout the day is the closest once can get to natural secretion of insulin by the pancreas.
Insulin pump therapy, or Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII), is an increasin...
Mylan Pharma's Generic Glipizide and Metformin Hydrochloride Tablets, Approved by the USFDA
in Daily Diabetic, on April 18, 2007
...et alone is not sufficient, but with different mechanisms of action: glipizide by stimulating the pancreas to secrete insulin and helping the body use insulin efficiently while metformin hydrochlor...
Pig Islet Cells May Help Solve Diabetes Problem
in Daily Diabetic, on April 4, 2007
...nsulin requirements by 34% for a year.
Type 1 diabetes is a condition when cells in a person's pancreas do not produce insulin and thus have no way of converting sugar to energy - resulting to ab...
DPP-4 Inhibitor JANUVIA® Approved In EU for Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on March 27, 2007
...ed, incretins work in two ways to help the body regulate high blood sugar levels: they trigger the pancreas to increase the release of insulin and signal the liver to reduce its production of glucose....
Junk Food and Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on March 24, 2007
...with higher levels of blood sugar are also significantly more likely to develop cancer of the skin, pancreas, urinary tract, and the womb. In another study, it was found that older women with high-fat...
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on March 19, 2007
...:
University of Michigan researchers have found that a gene recently implicated in liver, skin and pancreas cancer can cause an especially deadly kind of breast cancer, and may help explain why it gr...
Four Risk-factor Genes for Type 2 Diabetes, Identified at MUHC
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 20, 2007
...ren too. Caused by the decreased production or effect of insulin (a hormone that is secreted by the pancreas and which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood), type 2 diabetes affects nearly 2 m...
Appetite Hormone May Be Key To Insulin Production
in Daily Diabetic, on January 26, 2007
...of new treatments for diabetes that stimulate the production of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. This latest research, conducted with researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center i...
SH2B1, A Protein that Regulates Obesity
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 21, 2007
...line January 18) SH2B1 is expressed in many tissues related to obesity, including the brain, liver, pancreas, and fat tissue.
Such findings reveals potential new avenue in developing targets for obes...
Liver X Receptor: A Dual Role Glucose Sensor
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2006
...new studies will focus on the question of whether glucose levels in other tissue types, such as the pancreas, activate LXR.
This study, supported by the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research F...
Newest Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes Unleashed
in Daily Diabetic, on December 30, 2006
...by increasing consumption of sugar by the body, mainly through increasing insulin production in the pancreas, and by reducing production of sugar by the liver. By enhancing the effect of active incret...
Link Between Type 1 Diabetes And Nerves
in Daily Diabetic, on December 14, 2006
...om 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 scientists suggests tha...
Enzyme Deficiency May Cause Diabetes In Newborns
in Daily Diabetic, on December 9, 2006
...ble to regulate glucose normally because they have few insulin-producing beta cells in their pancreas and the remaining cells do not produce enough insulin. Using special strains of mice bred t...
Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed?
in Daily Diabetic, on November 15, 2006
...of the damage it has done to their macro vascular systems and organs such as their liver and pancreas."
What do you think?...
Transplanted Pancreas Cells Provide Only Short Term Relief To Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on September 29, 2006
... For a while, transplanted pancreas cells were the hot topic of diabetes conversation. Many scientists and diabetes sufferers thought the procedure may 'reverse' Type 1 diabetes, or at least...
Transplant Cured Type 2 Diabetes in Rats, Not Needing Immune Suppression Drugs
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 19, 2006
... incidence is rapidly increasing."
The treatment approach is transplanting precursors of the pancreas from embryonic pigs which in a previous study, Hammerman and co-developer Sharon A. Roger...
Stem Cells Aid In Fight Against Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 30, 2006
... heard from a diabetic man who no longer needs insulin injections after having cells from a cadaver pancreas infused into his liver.
Alex O'Meara of Richmond told the subcommittee of senators, de...
Transplant Cures Type 1 And Type 2 Diabetes In Rats
in Daily Diabetic, on August 30, 2006
...nd the incidence is rapidly increasing."
The treatment approach transplants precursors of the pancreas from embryonic pigs. In a previous study, Hammerman and co-developer Sharon A. Rogers, rese...
New Diabetes Drug Combo, Duetact™: Combines Pioglitazone and Glimepiride
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 21, 2006
...but works diffrently.
Pioglitazone targets insulin resistance while glimepiride boosts the pancreas' insulin production .
Read more at WebMD ....
Clinical Trials Begin For New Diabetes Drug
in Daily Diabetic, on July 31, 2006
...ted, incretins work in two ways to help the body regulate high blood sugar levels: they trigger the pancreas to increase insulin and signal the liver to stop producing glucose.
Would you be willing ...
Islet Cell Transplants Help Type 1 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on July 30, 2006
...rove the health of Type 1 diabetics.
In the transplant, cells are taken from the 'healthy' pancreas of an organ donor, and transplanted into the diabetic patient's liver, where they then ...
Gardenia Fruit Still A Hot Diabetes Topic
in Daily Diabetic, on July 21, 2006
...n both animals and humans, high concentrations of UCP2 appear to inhibit insulin secretion from the pancreas and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Study coauthor Chen-Yu Zhang's familiarity ...
Diabetes 'Cured' In Mice
in Daily Diabetic, on July 13, 2006
...hat induces the liver to produce cells that make insulin and the three hormones associated with the pancreas' endocrine system.
The gene was attached to a so-called "gutless" adenovirus...
Diabetes' "Holy Grail"
in Daily Diabetic, on July 13, 2006
...rhaps it will prove to be an apt one of a new diabetes device, paving the way towards an artificial pancreas. A continuous
glucose monitor , invented by Medtronic, is highly effective...and highly ...
Drinking Coffee Equals Reduced Risk of Diabetes?
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 7, 2006
...cess carbohydrates and antioxidants) in coffee beans may protect the cells in the insulin-producing pancreas. Could be or could be not the beneficial element in coffee but sure should be examined in f...
Link Between Cystic Fibrosis and Diabetes Better Understood
in Daily Diabetic, on June 30, 2006
...etes in cystic fibrosis patients is not caused by the destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas - as is often the case in patients with the traditional form of type 1 diabetes - but by di...
Diabetes is Prevented by Gene Therapy in Mice
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 22, 2006
...ne disorder in which the body errantly attacks the cells of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, causing chronic hyperglycemia and complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart d...
The Latest In Diabetes Treatment: Micro Bubbles
in Daily Diabetic, on May 23, 2006
...ans?
The technique is less invasive than other strategies that require direct injections into the pancreas, the U.S. researchers note.
The approach is "very clever," said Dr. Bob Goldstei...
New Insulin-Production Method Poses Impact to Diabetes Research
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 15, 2006
... Insufficient insulin production in the pancreas is one of the primary causes of adult-onset diabetes. Once the production mechanism of insulin in the body is understood, it will be easier for resea...
Cadavers Used To Temporarily Reverse Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2006
...thousands of islets from cadavers, and injects them into diabetes patients. Islets are cells in the pancreas that help create insulin, which diabetics lack.
Once the islets are injected into a living...
"Autobiography of Diabetes Mellitus"
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2006
...bother even to get up from his easy chair, then he has no control over his blood sugar and the poor pancreas finds it difficult to control the sugar level and I will have to appear there for certain. ...
Can A Drug Cocktail Reverse Type 1 Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2006
...ned to 'teach' the body to tolerate, rather than attack, the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Scientists hope to begin human trials later this year.
This story has sent the Diabetes c...
MiniMed's Paradigm® REAL-TIME Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, a Step towards Artificial Pancreas Technology
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 19, 2006
...s complications; believes that this is a critical step in expediting the development of artificial pancreas technologies which is JDRF's current major research priority.
"This represents an...
Kidney Stones: Just Live With The Pain?
in Daily Diabetic, on April 11, 2006
...mones , the authors hypothesize. The link with diabetes may relate to damage inflicted upon the pancreas, they add.
What do you think? Would you chance the treatment, or live with the pain? if ...
