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Diabetes: Immune System Can Regulate Insulin

Many diabetes patients require insulin injections to keep their glucose levels stable. (Image: pxhere | CC0)
Many diabetes patients require insulin injections to keep their glucose levels stable. (Image: pxhere | CC0)

Inflammation processes are responsible for the failure of insulin production in diabetes patients. The patients’ own immune systems can contribute to treatment of this disease: researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have found a feedback mechanism that could help maintain insulin production in overweight sufferers, as they report in the journal Immunity.

21 November 2017

Many diabetes patients require insulin injections to keep their glucose levels stable. (Image: pxhere | CC0)
Many diabetes patients require insulin injections to keep their glucose levels stable. (Image: pxhere | CC0)
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