When the immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas responsible for producing insulin, type 1 diabetes develops, which can only be treated medically with insulin injections. Although insulin helps treat the autoimmune disease, there is no cure, and in the future, diabetes could lead to serious problems: eye and skin complications, ulcers, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and kidney failure.
A study conducted by a group of scientists at the National Center for Biotechnology has demonstrated a way to prevent the immune system from attacking pancreatic cells.
Using a scientific model based on mice, they have reached some very encouraging conclusions: growth hormone, used by doctors since the middle of the last century to treat deficiency in children and young people, delays the development of type 1 diabetes.
With the help of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, they have verified that growth hormone improves the proliferation of pancreatic islets, promotes their integrity, and has effects on the immune system, promoting the assistance of anti-inflammatory macrophages and, in addition, preserves the activity of the T lymphocyte population responsible for reducing the immune response.
We carry out a whole battery of tests, which depend on what the patient tells us in a complete medical history, and we only decide, although in general, the working plan is, as with any chronic condition, to look for causes and causal factors.
At Biosalud, we have extensive experience and excellent results in treating autoimmune diseases using the techniques offered by biological medicine.
