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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Canadian firm Sernova wants to get rid of those pesky insulin injections, and all the costs and side effects associated with living with and managing a chronic disease like diabetes.
It is developing a treatment that makes use of an implanted device that will contain therapeutic islet cells capable of delivering insulin by sensing the levels of blood glucose. In effect the company aims to return the natural function of the human body by transplanting islet cells into a patient?s body that has lost the ability to produce insulin.
The polymer ?cell pouch,? in addition to containing islet cells, will also contain a local immune protection cell technology called Sertolin so that the patient?s body doesn?t reject the transplant.
http://medcitynews.com/2013/01/cana...urally-with-a-cell-therapydevice-combination/
It is developing a treatment that makes use of an implanted device that will contain therapeutic islet cells capable of delivering insulin by sensing the levels of blood glucose. In effect the company aims to return the natural function of the human body by transplanting islet cells into a patient?s body that has lost the ability to produce insulin.
The polymer ?cell pouch,? in addition to containing islet cells, will also contain a local immune protection cell technology called Sertolin so that the patient?s body doesn?t reject the transplant.
http://medcitynews.com/2013/01/cana...urally-with-a-cell-therapydevice-combination/