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Therapy with (stem) cells in cases of diabetes mellitus
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In the past the topic of stem cell therapy has often been discussed in public. This therapy, disputed as it is, enables research on healing diabetes mellitus.
As M. Tiedge said in the "Medizinische Welt" 5/2004: "Pluripotent embryonic stem cells can be transformed into insulinogenic cells under special conditions. Such a transformation is also possible with grown up stem cells from the pancreatic duct which develop into insulinogenic cells dependent on growth- and matrix-factors. The stem cell technology was able to prove evidence that pluripotent cells can be transformed into insulinogenic cells. An alternative strategy tries to produce insulin in not-endocrinal tissue (liver, musculature...). The advantage of producing insulin in not-endocrinal tissue is that no immunsupression is needed and no autoimmune attack has to be feared. The progress made in the last years [despite the experimental phase] clearly shows that it is theoretically possible to transfer this technology into clinical application of the cell therapy in type 1 diabetes cases. "
All texts translated by Jella Eifler
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