Hitting a Nerve
There's some remarkable new cure-based research out of Toronto that's generating buzz in the diabetes community. This morning, a viewer emailed us to ask "Is it as significant as it sounds?"
Well, yes and no. if you're a mouse, it's huge news. To the rest of us mere mortals, it's a wait and see proposal. What is significant is that it challenges the conventional wisdom that type 1 diabetes is all about autoimmunity.
In brief - researchers found that diabetes is controlled by abnormalities in the sensory nociceptor (pain-related) nerve endings in the pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin. The discovery has led to new treatment strategies for diabetes, achieving reversal of the disease without severe, toxic immunosuppression.
Comments
- At 11:49 PM on Fri, Dec 22, 2006 Gladys wrote:
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