Transplants And Diabetes
Beginning of paper
Three Toronto scientists have developed an organ transplant procedure
that could, among its many benefits, reverse diabetes.
The procedure was developed by Bernard Leibel, Julio Martin and Walter
Zingg at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children.
The story of the ....
Middle of paper
.... amounts of minced pancreas from unrelated donor rats for one
year while a control group was left untreated. Then both the treated and
control groups received injections of approximately 500-800 islets of
Langerhans from unrelated donors. Of the five treated animals, two
became clinically and biochemically permanently normal. Six months later,
Martin examined the cured rats and found intact, functioning islets
secreting all of their hormones, including insulin. None of the controls
were ....
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