Created from stem cells in the pancreas and intestinal
Found that starting from stem cells or embryonic germ induced or you can create cells useful for the treatment of diabetes or other intestinal diseases.
At George Town University were conducted two different studies that have led to the discovery that stem cells can be used in the treatment of diabetes. Researchers from the first study, led by Ian Gallicano, have used stem cells pluripotent spermatogonial germ and have grown with the specific compounds that make cells similar to those of the pancreas, beta cells responsible for insulin production and that are destroyed in Type 1 diabetes.
Then the cells were transplanted into diabetic mice and have begun to produce insulin. Welsh said that thanks to this discovery, the transplants can be performed with cells from the patients themselves and may also cover women using as basic cells, oocytes.
The second part of the study involved James Welles and the staff at Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati (Ohio) and was responsible for creating the layers of intestinal tissue from two different types of stem cells: induced pluripotent stem cells, created by normal cells added of certain genes, and human embryonic stem cells. The group of scholars doing so, create “organoids”, ie portions of intestinal tissue including all habits that may be used for the study of some intestinal diseases.
