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…