Word: insulin
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...study on mice, the researchers found that a protein used to treat people with emphysema and lung diseases may also promote insulin production in diabetics...
...protein is as effective in humans as it was in mice, a few months of treatment would permit type 1 diabetics to produce their own insulin, rather than injecting themselves with synthetic insulin with each meal...
While injecting insulin allows a diabetic to manage his or her illness, the only way to cure diabetes is a pancreas transplant, which requires taking intensive immunosuppressant drugs so that the person’s body does not reject the organ...
...type 1 diabetes, a person’s t-cells destroy insulin-producing cells in his or her pancreas, mistaking them for foreign cells...
...Without insulin, which removes glucose from the bloodstream, the body’s organs can be damaged and cells are unable to metabolize glucose, meaning that no energy is produced to fuel the person’s body...