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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers at Lund University have managed to develop a technique whereby they can study the inflammatory process that takes place in the pancreas during the natural development of type 1 diabetes, allowing for real time and repeated non-invasive imaging of individual islets of Langerhans.
The technique enables the visualisation of a human autoimmune disease in animal models that gives us a way to watch the body?s response to new therapeutic strategies that attempt to save islets from this deadly immune system attack.
Anja Schmidt-Christensen and Dan Holmberg are two of the researchers behind the study.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-imaging-autoimmune-diabetes.html
The technique enables the visualisation of a human autoimmune disease in animal models that gives us a way to watch the body?s response to new therapeutic strategies that attempt to save islets from this deadly immune system attack.
Anja Schmidt-Christensen and Dan Holmberg are two of the researchers behind the study.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-imaging-autoimmune-diabetes.html