Word: insulin
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...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...
...Perhaps if we expose the system to insulin and occasionally shut off the hormones that make insulin, [to allow the cells to rest], we can stop Type I diabetes," says Dr. Richard C. Eastman, director of the NIDDK division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases...
Another hypothesis suggests that the immune system will develop a tolerance to insulin if large doses of the substance are introduced into the body. It is possible that an immune system acclimated to the high insulin levels would be less likely to attack the insulin-producing cells, according to Wilson...
Five people who were injected with small doses of insulin did not develop diabetes during the study, though one became diabetic after the study, conclusion. The seven who were not treated with insulin all developed diabetes within three years...