New Approach To Juvenile Diabetes Gains Attention
The ongoing research-being conducted at the University of Florida-is
demonstrating that the severity of type 1 diabetes can be reduced by
giving children with the disease stem cells collected from their own
umbilical cords. Children in the study demonstrated lower blood sugar
levels and required less insulin (a hormone given to treat diabetes)
than the control group.
Type 1-or juvenile diabetes-is a disease that involves a failure of
the body's immune system to recognize its own cells as non-
threatening, leading how to clean upholstery destruction of insulin-
producing cells in the pancreas. Researchers believe that using stem
cells from one's own cord blood (referred to as autologous therapy)
might keep the immune system from attacking the pancreas and possibly
help stop progression or development of the disease.
Successful Treatments
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood have been used for more than 20
years to treat nearly 70 diseases including certain types of cancers
and blood disorders such as leukemia, lymphoma and sickle-cell
anemia. A decade ago, less than 1 percent of Americans were banking
cord blood. Today, that figure has grown to about 4 percent and is
rising, largely due to the impact that cord blood treatment may have
in regenerative medicine-the science of using the body's own cells to
repair damaged tissue upholstery cleaning mn organs. More than one in
three Americans, approximately 128 million people, could benefit from
regenerative therapies using stem cells from preferred sources like
cord blood. Regenerative medicine studies are already well under way
in a variety of therapeutic areas in addition to type 1 diabetes,
including heart disease, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord and brain
injuries.
Fighting Diabetes
The new links between cord blood stem cells and diabetes treatment
could be especially important, as the number of children diagnosed
with type 1 diabetes continues to increase.
Nearly 21 million Americans have some form of diabetes, resulting in
annual health care costs of $132 billion. Type 1 diabetes alone
affects one in every 300 children, a number expected to soon reach 3
to 5 percent annually. Diabetes affects the body's ability to process
sugar and can lead to a host of complications ranging from kidney
disease to memory loss drugs Since regenerative medicine focuses on
treatments designed to restore function in damaged tissue or organs,
this field has the potential to save millions of lives and billions
of dollars within our current health care system.
How To Bank Cord Blood
Expectant parents who want to preserve their newborn's cord blood for
future medical use should consider banking with an experienced family
cord blood bank, such as Cord Blood Registry (CBR).
http://www.corsavoo
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StemCells subscribers may also be interested in these sites:
Children's Neurobiological Solutions
http://www.CNSfoundation.org/
Cord Blood Registry
http://www.CordBlood.com/at.cgi?a=150123
The CNS Healing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNS_Healing
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