Study Attempts to Reverse Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes

[Northerner]

Results from a novel experimental therapy for Type 1 diabetes that boosts parts of the healthy immune system are reported August 23 in the scientific journal Diabetes. The trial was led by Carla Greenbaum, MD, Diabetes Research Program director at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), and sponsored by the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), a clinical trial network funded by the National Institutes of Health. The trial took a unique two-pronged approach to treating Type 1diabetes in newly diagnosed participants. Two drugs were administered in combination. One drug interferes with the immune response that causes Type 1 diabetes while a second drug simultaneously boosted the part of the immune response that usually regulates overactive immune cells.

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