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2006-09-16 07:06:36 · 4 answers · asked by pinkk_purple 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Because of the anti-rejection drugs, it's not really a good option yet. The drugs handicap your immune system, which naturally can cause other types of complications. The most promising therapy I have heard about so far is stem cells, which theoritically can be used to regrow beta cells using your own non-rejectable DNA. The problem is that your haywire immune system will continue to attack the beta cells as foreign objects, which is the genetic cause of type I diabetes. If scientists can find a way to reprogram the genetic code which causes that behavior, all kinds of possibilities open up, including the stem cell option and the possibility that the beta cells will grow back on their own unhindered. Of course, all of this is still in the research and non-human testing stages.
2006-09-16 08:45:10 · answer #1 · answered by Joe D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is on the pancreas.... and I was talking to my teacher about this a few months back when I was in dental hygiene school. I think that if you got a transplant, you'd have to take the anti rejection meds for it which would harm the pancreas anyway.... or something along those lines. They still have a ways to go in this area.
2006-09-16 07:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a woman in dallas had it done a couple of years ago at Baylor, I havent heard how she is now, but the news followed up for a few weeks and she didnt need any insulin. It's very very promising if you ask me!
2006-09-16 07:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by curiosity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pancreaticislet/
2006-09-16 07:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋