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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A mother has become one of the first in the country to undergo a pioneering operation which it is hoped will one day lead to a cure for diabetes.
The ground-breaking procedure takes cells from dead patients and transplants them to the living.
Deputy headteacher Ann Adair, from Birmingham, who suffers from type one diabetes, has undergone the operation to replace the vital Islet Cells, which are responsible for producing insulin, and has started to see her symptoms reverse.
In type one diabetes the immune system mistakenly destroys the cells so they no longer make the hormone, which leads to dangerously low blood sugar levels.
But now medics have discovered the a way to transplant the pancreatic cells from deceased patients - which means the recipient’s body can once again produce insulin.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-dead-patients-potentially-cure-diabetes.html
Fail! 😱
The ground-breaking procedure takes cells from dead patients and transplants them to the living.
Deputy headteacher Ann Adair, from Birmingham, who suffers from type one diabetes, has undergone the operation to replace the vital Islet Cells, which are responsible for producing insulin, and has started to see her symptoms reverse.
In type one diabetes the immune system mistakenly destroys the cells so they no longer make the hormone, which leads to dangerously low blood sugar levels.
But now medics have discovered the a way to transplant the pancreatic cells from deceased patients - which means the recipient’s body can once again produce insulin.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-dead-patients-potentially-cure-diabetes.html
Fail! 😱
