]i dont know how to link up to newspapers but wondered if this makes intresting reading for some that was in the sunday post newspaper.
diabetes doctors ' debt to glasgow
DIABETES MAY soon be able to create their own insulin thanks to a Glasgow doctors unique collection.
Dr Alan Foulis of Glasgow Royal infirmary Dept of Pathology provided pancreas samples from patients who died soon after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
The result of his work in collaboration with researchers at the Penunsula Medical school in South West England and the University of Brighton, offers hope it might be encourage the beta cells of type 1 diabetes to reproduce, replacing those destroyed by the disease.
Beta cells found in the pancreas help produce insulin. This would be m ean a diabetic would be able to produced their own insulin for longer.
It is unclear what triggering the replication, but there was a tenfold increase in cell replication in these patients Preciously it was thought beta cells rarely reproduced and not once type 1 diabetes had been diagnosed.
Prof Noel Morgan, director of the Insitute of Biomedical and Clinical Science at Peninsula Medical School said Our findings offer hope that in the future a therapy could be developed that would allow individuals who are developing type 1 diabetes to retain their own insulin.
We could not have come to our conclusions without access to the unique collection of specimens collected by Dr Alan Foulis.
Dont know if there is light at the end of the tunnel during this life time but maybe for our children
diabetes doctors ' debt to glasgow
DIABETES MAY soon be able to create their own insulin thanks to a Glasgow doctors unique collection.
Dr Alan Foulis of Glasgow Royal infirmary Dept of Pathology provided pancreas samples from patients who died soon after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
The result of his work in collaboration with researchers at the Penunsula Medical school in South West England and the University of Brighton, offers hope it might be encourage the beta cells of type 1 diabetes to reproduce, replacing those destroyed by the disease.
Beta cells found in the pancreas help produce insulin. This would be m ean a diabetic would be able to produced their own insulin for longer.
It is unclear what triggering the replication, but there was a tenfold increase in cell replication in these patients Preciously it was thought beta cells rarely reproduced and not once type 1 diabetes had been diagnosed.
Prof Noel Morgan, director of the Insitute of Biomedical and Clinical Science at Peninsula Medical School said Our findings offer hope that in the future a therapy could be developed that would allow individuals who are developing type 1 diabetes to retain their own insulin.
We could not have come to our conclusions without access to the unique collection of specimens collected by Dr Alan Foulis.
Dont know if there is light at the end of the tunnel during this life time but maybe for our children