by Tudor Toma
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	IGF-I may heal diabetes Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020513-02 Published   13 May 2002

Type 1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune β cell destruction and therefore regeneration of these cells could help reverse the disease. But the molecules required to initiate and continue this process remain to be identified. In 1 May Journal of Clinical Medicine, Mónica George and colleagues from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain show that that local expression of IGF-I in β cells regenerates pancreatic islets and leads to recovery from type 1 diabetes.

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