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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
One of the worst times of the day for those diabetes sufferers who have to inject themselves with insulin may be about to come to an end - the breakthrough which leads to an oral administration of insulin sees light at the end of the tunnel as investigators from Portugal's Coimbra University remove an important obstacle.
There are two main barriers against the oral administration of insulin, namely that the solution is able to remain stable inside a gastro-intestinal ambience and secondly, that it manages to pass the intestinal epithelium, a wall covering the intestine which is in theory impermeable to insulin molecules.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/21-12-2011/120031-insulin_coimbra-0/
There are two main barriers against the oral administration of insulin, namely that the solution is able to remain stable inside a gastro-intestinal ambience and secondly, that it manages to pass the intestinal epithelium, a wall covering the intestine which is in theory impermeable to insulin molecules.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/21-12-2011/120031-insulin_coimbra-0/