Diabetes
Stress can be a factor for developing diabetes and autoimmune diseases
Over time, recurrent stress can trigger insulin resistance, hypertension, and abdominal fat deposition, researchers have found.
Jan 5, 2015
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Diabetes
With immunotherapy physicians avoid diabetes complications
What is the difference between the treatment of diabetes under an immune scheme compared to the traditional therapy? The patient gets a diagnosis and receives attention, but is also checked for a systemic immune problem and ...
Nov 20, 2014
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Diabetes
Viral infection may trigger childhood diabetes in utero
The incidence of type 1 childhood diabetes has been increasing rapidly worldwide. If blood sugar levels aren't well-controlled, juvenile diabetes can affect nearly every organ of a child's body. And while long-term complications ...
Oct 3, 2014
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Immunology
Spot on against autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammations
Multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and lupus are autoimmune diseases in which the immune cells can no longer differentiate between friend and foe and thus attack the body's own tissue. Here, the immunoproteasome, which supplies ...
Sep 25, 2014
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Medical research
A new way to generate insulin-producing cells in Type 1 diabetes (w/ Video)
A new study by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) has found that a peptide called caerulein can convert existing cells in the pancreas into those cells destroyed in type 1 diabetes-insulin-producing ...
Jul 31, 2014
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Medical research
Gene function identified in type 1 diabetes progression
IDENTIFYING a genetic weakness that causes type 1 diabetes in children has opened the way for development of a treatment capable of preventing the disease.
Jul 23, 2014
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Immunology
Research points way to 'holy grail' therapy for autoimmune diseases
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the University of Kansas are working toward a potential breakthrough therapy for a host of autoimmune diseases. Long a goal of immunology, the approach targets only the handful of dangerous ...
May 9, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Autoimmune drug may help prevent kidney disease caused by diabetes
A drug currently used to treat autoimmune disease may also help prevent the kidney-damaging effects of diabetes, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). ...
Mar 27, 2014
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Medical research
How rotavirus infection accelerates autoimmune diabetes in a mouse model
A combination of genetic predisposition and environmental factors is believed to cause autoimmune (type 1) diabetes. A study published on March 27th in PLOS Pathogens gets at the mechanisms by which rotavirus infection contributes ...
Mar 27, 2014
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Diabetes
Imaging autoimmune diabetes
Researchers at Lund University have managed to develop a technique whereby they can study the inflammatory process that takes place in the pancreas during the natural development of type 1 diabetes, allowing for real time ...
Jan 29, 2014
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