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Imaging technology detects early signs of type 1 diabetes in animal models
September 27th, 2004
Findings by researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that a powerful new imaging technology gives scientists a glimpse into the earliest stages of the inflammatory process leading to type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals. By the time overt symptoms of type 1 diabetes appear in an individual, destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas has already progressed significantly. The new findings one day may be useful for predicting whether and when diabetes will develop in humans. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which...
Source: Diabetes Week (2004-09-27)
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