Last Saturday Baylor hospital received permission from the FDA to do a
Eyelet Cell transplant.
http://www.bhcs.com/MedicalSpecialties/Transplantation/KP_isletcell.htm
Today on the Dallas news they are reporting she is doing fine and is now
making insulin on her own, where as she was a die hard type 1. Maybe
there's some hope after all.
Sorry if this is old news, I didn't see any headers where this might be the
topic.
I got one to say: HELL YEAH!!!!

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RaginPage - 17 Mar 2005 22:57 GMT
>Last Saturday Baylor hospital received permission from the FDA to do a
>Eyelet Cell transplant.
>http://www.bhcs.com/MedicalSpecialties/Transplantation/KP_isletcell.htm
>Today on the Dallas news they are reporting she is doing fine and is now
>making insulin on her own, where as she was a die hard type 1. Maybe
>there's some hope after all.
This is really cool. I hope it works.
Brent
jaybyrd - 17 Mar 2005 23:10 GMT
> Last Saturday Baylor hospital received permission from the FDA to do a
> Eyelet Cell transplant.
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> I got one to say: HELL YEAH!!!!
I was very cursorily involved in islet cell transplant research years
ago. My understanding is that it's most effective for Type I in
pediatric pts:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=15630433
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=15102600&itool=iconabstr
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=14618022&itool=iconnoabstr
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jaybyrd - 17 Mar 2005 23:10 GMT
> Last Saturday Baylor hospital received permission from the FDA to do a
> Eyelet Cell transplant.
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>
> I got one to say: HELL YEAH!!!!
here's another one. It looks like the real issue are the long term
autoimmune problems-
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
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