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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The Inaugural International Summit on Insulin Independence highlighted the research of a group of leading type 1 experts in Diabetes Autoimmunity and Beta Cell Regeneration. They introduced a ground-breaking approach to type 1 diabetes treatment, which holds the potential for restoration of insulin independence, using FDA-approved drugs.
A key issue in the discussion was why conventional therapeutic approaches to diabetes reverses diabetes in mice but not man, and how the differences between mice and men can lead to more successful approaches for patients with type 1 diabetes. It appears that in mice type 1 diabetes may simply be an autoimmune disease, but in man, it is a more complex disease and there is a need to regenerate new beta cells. Although type 1 diabetes was the focus of the discussion, the data presented on new therapies for regeneration of pancreatic islets which contain new pools of insulin-producing cells, might also be relevant to the more common type 2 diabetes.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1218776
A key issue in the discussion was why conventional therapeutic approaches to diabetes reverses diabetes in mice but not man, and how the differences between mice and men can lead to more successful approaches for patients with type 1 diabetes. It appears that in mice type 1 diabetes may simply be an autoimmune disease, but in man, it is a more complex disease and there is a need to regenerate new beta cells. Although type 1 diabetes was the focus of the discussion, the data presented on new therapies for regeneration of pancreatic islets which contain new pools of insulin-producing cells, might also be relevant to the more common type 2 diabetes.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1218776