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"Type I diabetics live without insulin in stem cel... - 4/11/2007 4:10:54 PM

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"Type I diabetics live without insulin in stem cell experiment"

POSTED: 6:26 p.m. EDT, April 10, 2007

" CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells -- apparently the first time such a feat has been accomplished.

Though too early to call it a cure, the procedure has enabled the young people, who have Type I diabetes, to live insulin-free so far, some as long as three years. The treatment involves stem cell transplants from the patients' own blood."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/04/10/diabetes.experiment.ap/index.html

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RE: "Type I diabetics live without insulin in stem... - 4/13/2007 5:06:26 PM

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A friend of mine reported that capsaicin injections into some organ or other, I believe it was the liver, had similarly promising effects, with most of the subjects being disease-free when the paper was published after a few months. Remains to be seen how it works out, though. And, of course, I should point out that this is second-hand; I haven't read the paper myself.

Also, insulin requirements may be reduced by about 30% by using a presynaptic alpha-2 blocker, such as reboxetine or mianserin.

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