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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The source of the diabetic nerve pain and degeneration begins with a special fusion of bone marrow and nerve cells that lead to nerve death and dysfunction ? proving that diabetes is indeed "bad to the bone," said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in two recent reports.
"The excess blood sugar levels in diabetes cause the bone marrow cells to become promiscuous, traveling to nerve and other tissue cells and fusing to them. When the bone marrow cells fuse to neurons (nerve cells) and cells of the nervous system, they cause the cells to die early and malfunction," said Dr. Lawrence Chan, professor of medicine ? endocrinology and director of the federally funded Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center at BCM.
http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=4584
"The excess blood sugar levels in diabetes cause the bone marrow cells to become promiscuous, traveling to nerve and other tissue cells and fusing to them. When the bone marrow cells fuse to neurons (nerve cells) and cells of the nervous system, they cause the cells to die early and malfunction," said Dr. Lawrence Chan, professor of medicine ? endocrinology and director of the federally funded Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center at BCM.
http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=4584