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Essay Galaxy - Transplants and Diabetes
Transplants and Diabetes
Three Toronto scientists have developed an organ transplant procedure
that could, among its many benefits, reverse diabetes.
The procedure was developed by Bernard Leibel, Julio Martin and Walter
Zingg at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children.
The story of their work began in 1978, when they delved into research
which had never before been tried. They wanted to determine if the
success rate of organ transplants would increase if the recipient was
injected with minute amounts of organ tissue prior to the transplant. The
intention was to adapt the recipient to the transplanted tissue and
thereby raise the threshold of rejection.
In the case of the diabetes experiment, this meant injecting rats with
pancreatic tissue before transplanting islets of Langerhans, smal....
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