Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study will span seven years, with an actual trail period of four years. High risk participants will be injected with insulin while lower risk subjects will take the insulin orally. The insulin injection trial is now underway, and the oral insulin trial will start next year...
...doctors will first look for people with antibodies that attack cells which produce insulin. They will then try to identify people who release little insulin when injected with glucose...
Parents, siblings or children of diabetics are prime candidates for the study, since they are most likely to have the antibodies that kill insulin-producing cells...
...theories new exist to explain why giving potential diabetics low doses of insulin may slow, or even stop, the progress of the disease...
...high-risk patients, there are few insulinmaking cells. Injected insulin would allow the cells that do create insulin to "rest," says Dr. Darell M. Wilson, associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University Medical School...