Cutting-edge technology | years of diabetes has been cured! Get a quick overview of the magic of stem cell therapy in 3 minutes

This article is reproduced from the "Cell Kingdom" WeChat public account.

Diabetes is a common chronic noncommunicable disease that has become a serious worldwide public health problem. According to data released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the total number of people with diabetes worldwide is expected to increase to 629 million by 2045.

China's diabetes problem is severe, and the detection rate is nearly 10%. Around us, an average of one in every 10 people have diabetes, it is becoming one of the biggest health challenges for modern people. With the increasing prevalence of the disease year by year, diabetes has become the third major disease that threatens human health after cardiovascular disease and tumors.

However, although China is a big country with diabetes and a large number of patients, there is still no effective cure, and the existing treatment can only control complications, and medical scientists are actively looking for effective treatments to help patients get rid of diabetes.

Stem cells are a hot topic in the field of regenerative medicine in recent years, and in the treatment of diseases, scientists continue to demonstrate the possible mechanism of stem cells in the treatment of diabetes. Studies have found that stem cells have a strong differentiation and regeneration function, which can promote the regeneration and repair of damaged islet β cells, reduce blood sugar by improving the function of islet β cells, and at the same time, stem cells can also promote cell absorption of sugar and improve insulin resistance through their secreted exosomes.

The video, produced by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, tells the story of 35 trillion cells in the human body that originated in the same cell (stem cell), illustrating the possible mechanisms of stem cells used to treat diabetes. The video tells the classification and formation process of diabetes, through the video we can intuitively understand the causes of diabetes.

| Harvard University comic strip for 3 minutes to explain the principles of stem cells in the treatment of diabetes

With the global application of stem cells to treat diseases has accumulated a large number of successful and effective cases, stem cells have become a new direction of diabetes treatment after surgery and drugs.

So far, there have indeed been thousands of clinical cases of mesenchymal stem cells in the world for diabetes treatment, and these public cases show that stem cell therapy for diabetes can indeed reverse the condition of diabetic patients to a certain extent, and the dependence on insulin is also greatly reduced.

After follow-up, diabetic patients who adopted stem cell therapy had a significant recovery of islet function, greatly reduced their dependence on insulin, and could control blood sugar in the body well.

| case: CCTV: Stem cell therapy works wonders! The diabetes that has been tormented for so many years has been "cured"!

In long-term follow-up, it was found that diabetic patients receiving stem cell therapy were able to stop relying on insulin for up to three consecutive years, and there were no adverse effects of this therapy clinically. It is believed that the realization of the transformational application of stem cells for the treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications will not be too far away.

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