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...Most trials trying to reverse the disease are for new-onset diabetes,” said Denise L. Faustman, a Harvard Medical School professor who is helping to lead the study. “This is one of the first trials actually trying to manipulate the immune system in someone who has a long-standing disease...
...Faustman is currently planning a continuation of the project. "We are trying to apply it to different kinds of cells and to higher organisms," she said. "It's good because the antibodies are directly applicable to humans...
...Faustman's research will "instead treat the tissue [to be transplanted] with agents that prevent the T-cells from adhering to it," she says, "thereby eliminating the need for therapy of the host and its inevitable complications...
...experiments have utilized human pancreatic islets and parenchymal liver tissue transplanted into the kidneys of mice, Faustman says...
...thing about whole organ transplants is that you are putting an enormous amount of foreign cells into the body," Faustman says...