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Diabetes Research
Transplant treatment approach common to Type 1 Diabetes proves effective for Type 2 Diabetes
October 5th, 2006
An approach proven to cure a rat model of type 1 or juvenile-onset diabetes also works in a rat model of type 2 or adult-onset diabetes, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Finding that we can cure type 2 diabetes in the same way is very significant because in humans type 2 diabetes is almost 20 times more prevalent than type 1 diabetes," said senior author Marc R. Hammerman, MD, the Chromalloy Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine. "There are about 200 million type 2 diabetics worldwide, and the incidence is rapidly increasing." The treatment approach transplants precursors of the...
Source: Blood Weekly (2006-10-05)
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