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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
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Seventy-five years ago the type of diabetes that affected children and
young adults was lethal. In the 1990's investigators found that a hormone, that
was produced in Islets of Langerhans, was not being produced in diabetes
patients. This hormone, called insulin, enables other cells to take up sug ....
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....one secretion. To start this they needed a way to separate islet clusters
from the pancreas. These constitute only 2% of the entire pancreas, though, and
are scattered throughout it. In 1967 they found a solution and took the islets
from rats. These islets were transplanted in inbred rats to see if it would
control insulin production in diabetes patients. It was a success and kept blood
sugar levels normal. It even fixed early complications in the eyes and the
kidneys.
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