Word: islet
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...China's largest supermarket chains, Nonggongshang, said its 1,200 stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group sympathetic to the new textbook. Meanwhile, Seoul?where people were already angry that a Japanese prefecture recently claimed a remote rocky islet as its own, even though the Korean coast guard has been patrolling it for 57 years?reacted with similar indignation. Particularly galling to South Koreans was that Japan's education czars had directed four Japanese textbook publishers to refer to the disputed island as Japanese territory...
...TUZLA ISLAND Russia and Ukraine nearly came to blows late last year over this strategically placed islet, which guards the only shipping lane from the landlocked Azov Sea to the Black Sea. Tensions eased last week with the ratification of an accord to share the Azov's waterways?but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the fate of Tuzla itself has yet to be decided...
Once 90% of the islet cells are destroyed, the body is no longer able to regulate blood-sugar levels and the patient develops the classic symptoms of diabetes. At this point, the patient needs insulin injections to survive. Even with insulin, though, the complications of Type 1 disease can take a terrible toll. By age 55, for example, 35% of victims have died of a heart attack. Kidney failure is also common, and after 15 years of the disease, 80% of Type 1 diabetics have sustained significant eye damage...
...make an end run around the disease. A case in point is Gary Kleiman, 50, who has had two kidney transplants and lost most of his eyesight since being diagnosed at age 6. Today Kleiman is one of 300 patients worldwide who have received a transplant of pancreatic islet cells. For the first time since age 6, Kleiman does not need insulin injections. "It's been an amazing journey," he says. "Several of my very special friends with Type 1 didn't make it this far. They died at ridiculously young ages--in their...
Kleiman's physician, Dr. Camillo Ricordi of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, is one of the pioneers who have refined islet-cell transplants. And while a pancreatic-cell transplant may sound like a cure, Ricordi is quick to point out that it is not. First, there is the challenge of preventing a patient's body from rejecting the transplanted cells, and second, there is the challenge of shutting off the immune response that still wants to kill off islet cells...