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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
One of the most debilitating risks of diabetes is peripheral neuropathy, which can impact millions of people each year and often leads to amputation.
It's difficult to treat, but researchers at Boston Children's Hospital are working to develop a skin cream that may relieve it.
The cream, which has been tested on mice in two trials, is designed to replenish GDNF, a group of cells that play a role in stimulating nerve growth. For those with small-fiber neuropathy--which reveals itself through pain and tingling in the extremities, usually the feet--the cells are lost through the degeneration of nerve endings.
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2014/02/02/8135/skin-cream-could-treat-peripheral-neuropathy-/
It's difficult to treat, but researchers at Boston Children's Hospital are working to develop a skin cream that may relieve it.
The cream, which has been tested on mice in two trials, is designed to replenish GDNF, a group of cells that play a role in stimulating nerve growth. For those with small-fiber neuropathy--which reveals itself through pain and tingling in the extremities, usually the feet--the cells are lost through the degeneration of nerve endings.
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2014/02/02/8135/skin-cream-could-treat-peripheral-neuropathy-/