Cancer drug may be helpful to treat Type 1 diabetes
Posted: November 19th 2008
By editor1
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Cancer, Diabetes
Tags: cancer drug, insulin, leukemia, treatment, type1 diabetes
Gleevac, which is considered a wonder drug to treat leukemia and other cancers, may also prove helpful to reverse type1 diabetes, researchers from University of California San Francisco find.
While noticing effects on mice, the researchers also found that Gleevec and another similar cancer drug Sutent helped to avoid the development of type1 diabetes. Type1 diabetes occurs because of the body’s inability to produce insulin and more often it is diagnosed in children and young adults.
Jeffrey Bluestone, who led the study, says: “ Gleevec seems to affect related kinases even platelet-derived growth factor that are possibly involved in different cell types grave to the progression and development of autoimmune disease like type1 diabetes”.
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