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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
?Skin drug shows ?promising? results on type 1 diabetes,? reports BBC News.
This story is based on a small trial of alefacept in people with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. The immune system of people with type 1 diabetes attacks the insulin producing cells in their pancreas. Most people with type 1 diabetes have to regularly inject themselves with insulin.
Alefacept is approved for use to treat the skin condition psoriasis in the US. Researchers hoped it might help people with type 1 diabetes, because both conditions are autoimmune conditions (where the symptoms develop due to the body?s immune system ?malfunctioning? and attacking its own healthy tissue).
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/be...locktitle=Behind-the-Headlines&contentID=4530
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This story is based on a small trial of alefacept in people with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. The immune system of people with type 1 diabetes attacks the insulin producing cells in their pancreas. Most people with type 1 diabetes have to regularly inject themselves with insulin.
Alefacept is approved for use to treat the skin condition psoriasis in the US. Researchers hoped it might help people with type 1 diabetes, because both conditions are autoimmune conditions (where the symptoms develop due to the body?s immune system ?malfunctioning? and attacking its own healthy tissue).
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/be...locktitle=Behind-the-Headlines&contentID=4530
(free registration required)