Type 1 Diabetes

Intestinal cells become insulin producers after genetic induction

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, October 10th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Using gene induction techniques, researchers have been able to make intestinal epithelial cells begin producing insulin, according to a report in Diabetes.

"They (the cells) have certain merits over other tissues and organs in terms of accessibility for gene delivery and of similarity in developmental background to the pancreatic primordium," investigators at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine contend.

Though pancreatic cell transplantation currently holds the spotlight as a feasible method for treating some diabetes patients, scientists have also begun to suspect that gene therapy may be a...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2002-10-10)

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