Patients with diabetes given a stem cell transplantation were able to go without insulin for over three years in some cases, according to a new study in JAMA.
Researchers from American and Brazil treated 23 patients with type 1 diabetes and 20 used less insulin or none at all during the follow-up period, 12 continuously and 8 transiently. The idea is to stop the patients’ own immune systems attacking insulin-producing cells.
“We were trying to preserve islet beta cell mass, that is, the cells that produce insulin, by stopping the immune system attack on these cells,” says study author Richard Burt, of Northwestern University (Forbes).
“Why new onset? because we wanted to make sure there were still some islets there. we don’t believe stem cells form islet cells, but if the islet cells are still there, there might be regeneration if we stop the attack soon enough.”
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