Cultivation of live animal cells in humans for the treatment of diabetes

New Zealand has agreed to conduct experiments on animal cell transplants for patients with diabetes type I in revolutionary research that brings hope in the normal life of thirty million people with the disease in the Western world.

Will receive the first eight patients, pancreas cells from pigs in Middle more Hospital, Auckland early next year, and if successful this process has been approved for general use in the treatment within three years.

And the transfer of live animal cells of the human being known as the transfers of organs, cells and tissues from species to species is still the subject of debate on a large scale. Preliminary experiments were stopped in Auckland in 1996 amid fears that swine viruses infect humans and Australia introduced in 2005 a five-year ban on the process on the basis that it has not been verified safety.

After long deliberation and approved New Zealand Health Minister David Unlike to conduct a clinical trial on October 21 (October), 18 months after the leave of medicines and medical instruments in his ministry procedure. And diabetes type I autoimmune disease usually occurs in childhood and destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone necessary. And after that depends on the victims injections of synthetic insulin the rest of their lives and often face complications, including blindness and the need for amputation of affected limbs. The treatment involves taking insulin-producing cells from the pancreas of newborn pigs, coating them with a gel made from seaweed to protect them from the human immune system and then implanted into the abdomen of the patient. However, these pigs are not normal are descendants of European pigs that were abandoned on the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic, more than 300 miles to the south of New Zealand and is now uninhabited, and these pigs are free of disease, having lived in isolation for more than 200 years. The company will for the Living Cell Technologies, which will create the experience Undercharge near a pig farm on the island in the South Island of New Zealand Education.