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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Extracting islet cells from the pancreas, which makes insulin, and transplanting them to the liver where they regulate the body?s insulin levels, sounds like it could be a cure for diabetes.
It?s not that simple but research is taking place in Alberta, says Dr. James Shapiro, University of Alberta professor of surgery and medicine and director of the clinical islet transplant program.
Ground breaking surgery on a Medicine Hat girl, Lauren Miner, with pancreatitis involved permanently removing her pancreas, which was then broken down and islet cells extracted from it. Those cells were then put in her liver.
http://medicinehatnews.com/news/loc...search-breaking-through-barriers-of-diabetes/
It?s not that simple but research is taking place in Alberta, says Dr. James Shapiro, University of Alberta professor of surgery and medicine and director of the clinical islet transplant program.
Ground breaking surgery on a Medicine Hat girl, Lauren Miner, with pancreatitis involved permanently removing her pancreas, which was then broken down and islet cells extracted from it. Those cells were then put in her liver.
http://medicinehatnews.com/news/loc...search-breaking-through-barriers-of-diabetes/