TEDxNashville2010.4.27---Maureen Gannon:超越胰岛素

TEDxNashville2010.4.27---Maureen Gannon:超越胰岛素：细胞为基础的疗法来治疗糖尿病的未来
TEDxNashville - Maureen Gannon, Ph.D. -"Beyond Insulin: The future of cell-based therapies to treat diabetes"
- Currently, insulin replacement, in the form of multiple daily injections or via a programmable pump, is the only form of treatment available to Type 1 diabetes patients. While insulin replacement is clearly a lifesaver for these individuals, they must rigorously monitor their own blood sugar levels to ensure appropriate insulin dosing... something the cells in the pancreas normally do on their own. Thus, replacement of fully functional
insulin-producing cells would be a more ideal form of treatment and even a cure for patients with Type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Gannon discusses the current strategies in diabetes research including: 1. improving islet transplantation methods, 2. generating insulin-producing cells in a Petri dish for use in transplantation, 3. making insulin-producing cells from other types of cells, and 4. regenerating an individual's own insulin-producing cells.
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TEDxNashville - 莫林甘农博士 - “超越胰岛素：细胞为基础的疗法来治疗糖尿病的未来”
- 目前，胰岛素的替代品，每天多次注射泵或通过一个可编程的形式，是治疗的唯一形式提供给1型糖尿病患者。虽然胰岛素替代，显然是对这些人救星，他们必须严格监控自己的血糖水平，以确保适当的胰岛素剂量...一些在胰腺细胞通常做自己。因此，功能齐全的制造胰岛素的细胞替代治疗将是一个较为理想的形式，甚至是为患者治疗1型糖尿病。
甘农博士糖尿病研究讨论了目前的战略，包括：1。提高胰岛移植的方法，2。在一个产生移植，3使用培养皿产生胰岛素的细胞。使从细胞和其他类型4产生胰岛素的细胞。再生一个人的自身产生胰岛素的细胞。
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