Can Lettuce Be The Cure For Diabetes?

Can Lettuce Be The Cure For Diabetes? February 29, 2011 EIB&P Life Insurance Services- Can insulin produce in lettuce cure type 1 diabetes someday? Possibly. In mice, it seems to modulate the immune attack on the beta cells that is the hallmark of type 1 diabetes. But the pathway is complex. For the cholera bacterium, it’s a trick to get the intestinal cells to take up the intact cholera toxin. For the researchers, it’s a trick to get the intestinal cells to take up intact proinsulin. EIB&P Insurance Services This system stimulates uptake by cells of the intestinal immune system as well. In NOD (nonobese diabetic — a standard rodent model of type 1 diabetes) mice, the uptake by the immune cells resulted in a significant increase in compounds that…

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Researchers report HIV Infection cure; others cite dangers

Researchers report HIV infection cure; others cite dangers February 28, 2011 In the study, published last week online in the journal Blood, researchers at Charite-University Medicine Berlin treated an HIV-infected man who also had acute myeloid leukemia — a cancer of the immune system — by wiping out his own immune system with high-dose chemotherapy and radiation and giving him a stem-cell transplant. Stem cells are immature cells that can mature into blood cells.  At the time of the transplant, which occurred in February 2007, he stopped taking anti-HIV medications. New Start Insurance Services Quotes - Researchers in Germany are reporting that they may have cured a man of HIV infection. If true, that would represent a scientific advance, but not necessarily a treatment advance said researchers familiar with the…

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