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New diabetes therapy to save patients from needle

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TheTartanPimpernel

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Scotsman
Published Date: 18 November 2009

A small extract:

SCOTTISH patients with severe diabetes could be freed from daily injections of insulin with the launch today of a groundbreaking new cell transplant service.
The treatment involves extracting islets – the cells that produce insulin – from a donated pancreas. The cells are then injected into the liver of the patient with Type 1 diabetes – those who rely on insulin injections to control their condition.


Here is the full article.
http://living.scotsman.com/health/New-d ... 5833036.jp
 
when's this going mainstream? does it mean ani-rejection drugs? do we have to wait for people do die and donate a pancreas?

+ put this in the T1 forum, it'll get more reads.
 
Hi Howie.

Sorry. We do not duplicate posts on the forum. It is on the new posts so everybody should be able to see it anyway. It was posted in Discussions so anybody is welcome to comment.
 
lol k, not even forward it in their or something?

just that i don't visit this discussions board as often as i do the T1 board and it's obviously more relevant to T1's.

in reply to myself, i just looked into the article a bit and it's the islet cell transplant most people are already familiar with. great that it's being used though! which means you would need a donor, you would need anti rejection drugs and due to cost/lack of donors it wouldn't become mainstream till they crack stem cells. dunno why i posted those questions now lol.

howie
 
Readers digest reported on a doctor doing trials of a similar technique.

Extracting liver cells (your own), growing them in a lab, and modifying them to produce insulin, these are then injected back into your liver and you do not need injections.

No anti-rejection drugs either, because they are your own cells.

They said 5 years before it's mainstream, but I'll believe it when I see it.
 
At the personal request of Howie I have moved this to the T1 forum. I must be getting a soft touch or something........ :wink:

Howie, you need to get out more. There is life beyond the T1 forum you know......... :lol:
 
Now the thing with this is that it doesnt sort out the underlying cause for us T1's which is our haywire immune systems.

I got this through on the diabetics mailing list at work the other day and it makes for some interesting reading... I suppose the therapy itself is a little scary though that said so is any vaccination really.

Having thought about it I wonder if this would be something that would have to be administered on a regular basis to be effective?

http://www.diabeticadvisory.com/diabetes_research.htm

Also having graves disease and occasionally having flare ups of TED though not enough for serious therapy I wonder if this could be serious hope... though I would guess at least 10 years away in order to get through trials and testing.

Andy
 
still only 5 moths in here, T1 is all i can think about. + i just like to hear other T1's view on stuff like this and thought it'd get more reads over there & we don't wanna get T2's hopes up when they read the title!

Dr. Denise Faustman is great i heard about her on the radio. would be great if they continue to get investment. sorting the route of the cause would be safe and ideal but anything to be rid of the day to day T1 antics are welcome in my eyes. 8)
 
80% of patients who have undergone islet transplant STILL have to inject insulin, can't remember whether this is to cover basal or meal boluses, I think the latter. Not a permanent cure either, you'll be lucky to get more than 2 or 3 years before requiring a top-up...
 
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