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Old 04-20-2006, 04:04 PM
seacomp seacomp is offline
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Another Advance Against Type I reported

The following news release reports a combination therapy that appears to reverse early Type I diabetes.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-lsm041806.php
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approach focuses on teaching the immune system to tolerate, rather than attack, the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. By injecting the anti-CD3 antibody, which calms the immune system and lessens the attack on the beta cells, along with a piece of the nasal proinsulin peptide, which acts like a vaccine and induces a special cell type called "regulatory cells" that can actively and highly specifically protect beta cells
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particularly attractive because – if successful in humans – it could replace current insulin-injection treatments altogether,
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