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Nanoparticles May Solve Thorny Problem In
Diabetes Treatment
For people with type 1 diabetes, their lives can be very inconvenient.
Patients need to receive regular hormone injections through syringes,
insulin pumps or other devices. These treatments may be
accompanied by life.
Because the patient's immune system destroys normal islet cells, after losing
the function of the islets, they cannot control their blood sugar levels. In
addition to insulin injections, islet transplantation has also emerged as a
potential treatment for type 1 diabetes. But after transplantation, the immune
system will attack the transplanted islets, and patients need to take long-term
immunosuppressive drugs and endure the accompanying side effects of the
drugs.
How can patients reduce the side effects of immunosuppressive drugs? New
research published in Nature Nanotechnology brings a new idea. Scientists
have designed a nanocervator loaded with the commonly used
immunosuppressant rapamycin that can target specific immune cells in
question without causing widespread immunosuppression.
