Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
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Each year 13 thousand people are diagnosed with diabetes, and Until
about 75 years ago, the form of diabetes that usually strikes children and
young adults was invariably lethal. As you can see diabetes is a serious
problem.
In the past scientist have tried extracting insulin from animals
and mo ....
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.... vessels they had direct contact with
blood. The results were had the scientist encouraged. Their patients were
given 400 thousand islets, but they did not produce enough insulin to
enable the patients to stop taking injections. In 1990, 145 patients had
received islet transplants. In most patients the islets had not been able
to control blood sugar levels or had lost some of their activity in the
three years. The islets had been performing at maximum capacity and had
become exhausted. T ....
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