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To: FocusNexus

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. Gastric banding or bypass won’t do anything for it. Those patients must get insulin.


5 posted on 06/20/2008 10:01:54 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: neverdem

I’ve seen experiments done with balls of beta cells in semi-permeable membranes done years ago and nothing came from it. They successfully kept the cells from autoimmune attack while allowing glucose free entry into the membrane.


7 posted on 06/20/2008 10:10:59 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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