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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Following six years of research, the team believe they have discovered the cause of the condition, which results in the body being unable to produce the hormone insulin – something previously unknown.
This new research, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, means that an effective treatment could be developed more easily.
Prof Lucy Walker and her team at the Royal Free’s Institute of Immunity and Transplantation have found that a particular kind of immune cell, called a follicular helper T cell, is responsible for triggering an immune response in the body that leads to the destruction of insulin-producing cells.
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/healt...hospital_scientists_discover_t_cell_1_3908171
This new research, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, means that an effective treatment could be developed more easily.
Prof Lucy Walker and her team at the Royal Free’s Institute of Immunity and Transplantation have found that a particular kind of immune cell, called a follicular helper T cell, is responsible for triggering an immune response in the body that leads to the destruction of insulin-producing cells.
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/healt...hospital_scientists_discover_t_cell_1_3908171