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Diabetes
By: AGelbert Date: October 13, 2014, 8:06 pm
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Fri Oct 10, 2014 at 06:23 AM PDT.
Breakthrough In Path To Diabetes Treatment
by
Richard Lyon
Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism. It is
classified into two types I and II. Type I usually occurs in
adolescence and is a not well understood process in which the
beta cells of the pancreas which produce insulin are completely
destroyed. Type II is a collection of related problems which
usually involve some combination of insulin production and
insulin resistance. People with type I are entirely dependent on
injecting insulin to manage their diabetes. Some people with
type II reach a point at which they also need to inject insulin.
The holy grail of diabetes treatment has long been the hope for
a means of replacing beta cells. Now researchers at Harvard have
taken a giant step along the road toward achieving that goal.
Type 1 diabetes breakthrough using stem cell research raises
hope for cure Experts at Harvard University use stem cells to
create insulin-producing beta cells in large quantities, and say
human transplantation trials could be under way within a few
years
Scientists believe they have made a major advance in the quest
to find an effective treatment for type 1 diabetes.
Using human embryonic stem cells as a starting point, they have
for the first time been able to create human insulin-producing
beta cells equivalent in almost every way to normally
functioning beta cells in the kind of large quantities needed
for cell transplantation and pharmaceutical purposes.
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“[While] there have been previous reports of other labs deriving
beta cell types from stem cells, no other group has produced
mature beta cells as suitable for use in patients,” he said.
“The biggest hurdle has been to get to glucose-sensing,
insulin-secreting beta cells, and that’s what our group has
done.
“We are now just one pre-clinical step away from the finish
line.”
As part of the research they have developed a device to protect
the transplanted beta cells from immune attacks by the body of
the recipient. It has proved to be effective in mice. At present
there are experimental cell transplant treatments for humans
using cells from cadavers. They require heavy dosages of
immunosuppressive drugs. They have not proven feasible for
general clinical application.
This is one of a number of areas in which the use of stem cells
offers great prospects for regenerative medicine.
This form of beta cell transplant is not going to be available
in the immediate future. However, it does appear to offer real
hope for people down the road.
Originally posted to Richard Lyon on Fri Oct 10, 2014 at 06:23
AM PDT.
Also republished by SciTech and KosAbility.
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Agelbert NOTE: You DO NOT require aborted fetuses to get stem
cells, PERIOD! That "hurdle" was passed nearly a DECADE ago!
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Re: Diabetes
By: AGelbert Date: November 25, 2014, 7:25 pm
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The Truth About Artificial Sweeteners
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Joe Leech, Authority Nutrition
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Agelbert comment: Great article!
From my point of view and experience, I think it is prudent to
not "fake out" our taste buds with artificial anything. The body
is a complex mechanism. It talks to us. Why do we want to fool
it? Moderation is healthy. Everyone knows that. Pigging out
isn't. Everyone knows that too. You can die from drinking too
much WATER! Same with eating too much of ANYTHING that is
required for us to live and thrive. We function in a narrow band
of temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, ETCETERA. Trying to
"cheat" that band is stupid as well as irrational.
Only in the deranged predatory capitalist minds of the Wall
Streeters that curse this country is a destructive force
considered "Creative". This is nothing but the cheater's manual
of Orwellian (see 1984) "logic".
Metabolic events resulting from what we eat are either
destructive OR Creative but NEVER both! Required nutrients are
creative and life giving as long as they are consumed in a
NARROW band that defines our needs. If you go outside that band,
they become DESTRUCTIVE. Sugar, for example, is a killer in
excessive (and refined - i.e. no fiber or moderating nutrients
and minerals as those in a fruit) quantities.
Let's GET OVER this, "take a pill" to solve our piggery from
artificial sweeteners to every sort of stupid excess we engage
in. If we do the crime, we MUST do the "time" (i.e. cancer or
other disease). Our bodies ARE NOT fooled, even if our minds
have bought into Wall Street magical thinking.
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How Sugar makes a Dopamine Dope Out of YOU!
By: AGelbert Date: May 19, 2015, 11:26 pm
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How Sugar makes a Dopamine Dope Out of YOU! :P
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Re: Diabetes
By: AGelbert Date: June 13, 2015, 6:44 pm
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Mon Jun 08, 2015 at 03:53 PM EDT.
[b]100-year-old vaccine wins FDA approval for human clinical
trials to reverse Type 1 diabetes[/b]
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by
Jen Hayden
Is a drug to reverse diabetes in our future?
This is amazing!
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100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis has been so successful at
controlling Type 1 diabetes that it's won FDA approval:
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital are hoping to prove
that type 1 diabetes can be reversed with the help of a generic
drug.
The five-year long, phase II clinical trial, which received
approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was
announced Sunday during the 75th Scientific Sessions of the
American Diabetes Association, one of the largest diabetes
gathering in the country.
Scientists have already tested the bacillus Calmette-Guerin
vaccine in mice, showing the drug’s ability to eliminate
abnormal white blood cells responsible for the autoimmune
disease.
The drug now moves on to the next phase of clinical trials:
Now, the FDA has approved a trial of 150 adults age 18 to 60
with long-term Type 1 Diabetes, an autoimmune disease usually
diagnosed in children and young adults.
Good news for the roughly 29 million Americans and 387 million
worldwide who suffer from the disease.
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