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Alcohol Causes Hypoglycemia by Boosting Islet Blood Flow and Insulin Output

Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Ethanol intake is well known as a potential cause of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients and now new findings from an animal study shed light on the mechanisms involved.

Living Donors The Best Source Of Islets For Diabetes Treatment

Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2007

Obtaining islet cells from living donors may be a solution to the shortage of islets available for transplantation.

Researchers Uncover Potential Role of Leptin in Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007

A new Joslin-led study has shown that leptin, a hormone known mainly for regulating appetite control and energy metabolism, plays a major role in islet cell growth and insulin secretion. This finding opens up new avenues for studying leptin and its role in islet cell biology, which may lead to new treatments for diabetes

Study Points to New Direction for Pancreas Cell Regeneration

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Past studies in tissue culture have suggested that one type of pancreas cell could be coaxed to transform into insulin-producing islet cells.

Novel Peptide Boosts Availability And Success Of Islet Cell Transplant For Type-1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A peptide developed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College may expand the availability and durability of islet cell transplant for patients with type-1 diabetes.

Stem Cells Crucial to Diabetes Cure

Posted: Saturday, April 07, 2007

A gene called neurogenin3 proved critical to inducing cells in the liver to produce insulin on a continuing basis. They found that these "islet" cells came from a small population of adult stem cells usually found near the portal vein. Only a few are needed usually because.…

Pig Islets Successful After 10 Years in Human Without Using Immunosuppression

Posted: Thursday, April 05, 2007

Living Cell Technologies Limited announced it has published evidence outlining the survival and identification of live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient 10 years after receiving a pig islet cell transplant.

Pig Islets in Humans Offers Hope For Type 1’s

Posted: Thursday, February 08, 2007

A world-first trial by an Australian company could see pigs offering new hope for suffers of type one diabetes.

Breakthrough in Tracking Islet Cells Will Help in Finding a Cure

Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

Scientists in London have found a way to track insulin-producing islet cells after they have been transplanted, a breakthrough in the drive to find a cure for diabetes.

Increasing A1c Levels Predicts Progession to Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, November 02, 2006

Normal but increasing hemoglobin A1c levels predict progression from islet autoimmunity to overt type 1 diabetes: Diabetes Autoimmunity Study in the Young (DAISY).