Scientists who explore a possible cure for diabetes have shown that the transplant of insulin producing cells of the embryonic pig in diabetic monkeys can drastically reduce blood sugar levels, although not so much to normal levels.
The researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine of San Luis Transplanted groups of embryonic pigs of pigs destined to become insulin producing cells in three MacaCos Rhesus Macacos Diabetics.The macaques ”adopted” pork cells as their own, without the need for immunosuppression drugs to avoid rejection, researchers reported in the current edition of the organogenesis.
As developed immature pig cells, they began to produce insulin, and improves tolerance to glucose macaques.
"While diabetes does not cure, it becomes difficult control, or unstable diabetes, to a more manageable form of the disease by transplanting embryonic cells," says the main author, Marc Hammerman, MD, Professor Chromally of kidney diseases inmedicine.”More work is necessary, but this approach presents an interesting alternative for the treatment of diabetes in humans.Pork cells could overcome the shortage of human islets available for the transplant of deceased donors and the need of patients with transplantation of taking medications against life rejection."