Not so long ago on the pages of our website we wrote about the project, which will help diabetics to do without the drug. And here now it became known that a group of researchers from Japan and the United States managed not only to help people with diabetes to do without drugs, and completely cure diabetes mellitus of the 1st type.
Employees of the Medical center Children’s hospital of Cincinnati and Yokohama city University in the course of the experiment with human cells, mice cells and induced pluripotent stem cells were able to create pancreatic islets. They are also known as islets of Langerhans. And they are responsible for the production of insulin cells of the pancreas.
First, in vitro (meaning in test tube), researchers watched as “real” islets of Langerhans work and start the production of necessary hormones. Then from the above part of the cells of the experts, similar in structure structure and transplanted them into mice suffering from diabetes mellitus of the 1st type. In the end, the new structure already in vivo (inside the body) began to produce insulin and control blood sugar levels in exactly the same way as would normal cells. Experts now hope that they will approve the continuation of the tests on humans to find out if it works the method on humans. The authors of the work are very optimistic:
“We believe that in the future people will be able to get rid of diabetes only through their own tissue, grown specially for them in the laboratory. Because such fabrics, in addition to producing insulin, not rejected by the body”.
Scientists were able to cure diabetes type 1 diabetes type
Vladimir Kuznetsov