Specialists have developed a new way of treating diabetes using stem cells and oxygen therapy, which, according to preliminary results, proved to be quite effective, BBC.

At the first stage of the study, 125 patients with type 2 diabetes who received autologous stem cells from blood vessels feeding the pancreas. Also, patients underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy, according to an online edition for girls and women aged 14 to 35 Pannochka. Net With type 2 diabetes, the reaction to the insulin produced in the body is weak due to an increase in resistance to it, which is accompanied by a decrease in the productivity of the cells of the islets of Langerhans. With type 1 diabetes, beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed, because self-insulin is not produced.

Scientists have tried to find a way to restore the pancreas. According to the preliminary results of the experiment, the combination of the introduction of stem cells and oxygen therapy significantly improved insulin production, leveled glucose levels, increased metabolic control and reduced the number of injections of insulin, researchers reported..

The experts obtained permission from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct another study in humans and to prove the effectiveness of this method of treatment.

Medicinform. Net.