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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology has created the first videos of the cell destruction that occurs in type 1 diabetes, an advance that could lead to better treatments for a disease that afflicts 3 million Americans.
The videos show immune system T-cells attacking insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas of research mice. In humans, this kind of attack can lead to type 1 diabetes, a potentially fatal disorder that requires insulin therapy.
"We now have a much better window into how type 1 diabetes occurs," says Ken Coppieters, who helped with the study as a researcher at the La Jolla Institute. He now works at Ghent University, Belgium.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/...te-first-video-attack-causes-diabet/?sciquest
The videos show immune system T-cells attacking insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas of research mice. In humans, this kind of attack can lead to type 1 diabetes, a potentially fatal disorder that requires insulin therapy.
"We now have a much better window into how type 1 diabetes occurs," says Ken Coppieters, who helped with the study as a researcher at the La Jolla Institute. He now works at Ghent University, Belgium.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/...te-first-video-attack-causes-diabet/?sciquest