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Gum stem-cell trial reports improvement in more than half of Type 1 diabetes patients
Scientists and doctors in Shanghai and Guangzhou tested gum-tissue stem cells as a treatment for Type 1 diabetes.
The cells, called gingival mesenchymal stem cells, were taken from tissue in the mouth.
The treatment was studied in a randomised phase 1 clinical trial.
More than half of those who received it showed some degree of improvement.
One participant was able to stop taking insulin completely.
The results were published in the medical journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy on September 30.
The findings are encouraging, but the trial results do not say what further testing or treatment plans will follow.
A phase 1 trial tested a treatment using stem cells extracted from gum tissue in people with Type 1 diabetes.
More than half of those who received the treatment showed varying degrees of improvement, researchers said.
One participant was able to stop using external insulin completely.
The randomised trial was conducted by scientists and doctors from Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The results appeared in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy on September 30.
- Who
- Scientists and doctors from Shanghai and Guangzhou conducted the trial.
- What
- A phase 1 trial tested gum-tissue stem cells as a treatment for Type 1 diabetes.
- When
- The results appeared on September 30; the year is not stated in the article text.
- Where
- Shanghai and Guangzhou, China.
- Why
- Not stated.
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More than half of participants who received the treatment showed varying degrees of improvement, and one stopped using external insulin completely.
The study results appeared in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy.
- Trial phase
- Phase 1
- Treatment
- Gingival mesenchymal stem cells extracted from gum tissue
- Improvement
- More than half of treated participants showed varying degrees of improvement
- Insulin
- One participant stopped external insulin therapy completely
- Publication date
- September 30