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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
There is good news for diabetics. Researchers at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US, have joined hands to develop a new method in cell therapy in treating certain types of diabetes. This involves inserting a device called theracyte, which plays the role of an artificial pancreas, under the skin.
Theracyte is a capsule of pancreatic islet cells, which help produce insulin, and are transplanted under local anaesthesia. The five cm long and 1.3 cm wide capsule, or theracyte, will have lakhs of insulin producing islet cells that are gathered from the patients themselves or from cadavers. The tiny porous gaps in the capsule would not allow the cells to slip out but allow flow of insulin produced from these cells into the body and oxygen and other nutrients the cells need to survive and energy into the cells.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/capsuled-cells-is-new-treatment-for-diabetes/1/225810.html
Theracyte is a capsule of pancreatic islet cells, which help produce insulin, and are transplanted under local anaesthesia. The five cm long and 1.3 cm wide capsule, or theracyte, will have lakhs of insulin producing islet cells that are gathered from the patients themselves or from cadavers. The tiny porous gaps in the capsule would not allow the cells to slip out but allow flow of insulin produced from these cells into the body and oxygen and other nutrients the cells need to survive and energy into the cells.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/capsuled-cells-is-new-treatment-for-diabetes/1/225810.html