Diabetes Breakthrough: FDA-Approved Drugs Regenerate Insulin Production in 48 Hours
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.....The breakthrough was made by getting pancreatic ductal progenitor cells – that give rise to the tissues lining the pancreas’s ducts – to develop to mimic the function of the β-cells that are usually ineffective or missing in people with type 1 diabetes.
Researchers, led by a team from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia, investigated a new use for drugs already approved by the FDA that target the EZH2 enzyme in human tissue. Ordinarily, this enzyme controls cell development, providing an important biological check on growth.
Crucially, the new cells can sense glucose levels and adjust insulin production accordingly – just like β-cells. In type 1 diabetes, which the study focuses on, the original β-cells are mistakenly destroyed by the body’s immune system, which then means blood glucose and insulin must be managed with regular injections.
The tests carried out by the team showed the same reaction in tissue samples taken from two individuals with type 1 diabetes aged 7 and 61, and one aged 56 without diabetes, suggesting it can work across the generations. Another positive sign is that it took just 48 hours of stimulation before regular insulin production resumed.
.....Around 422 million people are thought to be living with diabetes worldwide, relying on manually checking and managing blood sugar levels. It’s still early days for this research, with clinical trials still to come, but it’s another potential way to coax the human body to replace the functions that diabetes takes away.
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Call me skeptical. Basing research findings on results of 3 people, weak IMO. Encouraging in that it gives an avenue to do ‘real’ clinical research to see if the results support what they are claiming, but FDA approving based on this reminds one of the Covid MrNA shots. Notice they didn’t name or mention the drug used. With such small pool guess they didn’t want a new craze for people looking for cures. Do not trust the science with this type of research.