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Cells from the pancreas of pigs to help people suffering from diabetes type. In the early stage of clinical trials it was found that this treatment is absolutely safe. And it improves the control of blood sugar levels.

Encapsulated cells of the pancreas of pigs successfully transplanted a man without any rejection by the immune system, which usually tries to destroy the unknown to her cell. Not only that, scientists have reported that pig cells are very rapidly begin to produce insulin in the human body in response to high levels of sugar in the blood.

For some people this leads to the stabilization of glucose levels. But two patients who participated in the first stage of clinical trials in humans, generally managed to shoot with injections of insulin.

"This is a very radical and new way of combating the disease - said Dr. Paul Tan, the head of a New Zealand company Living Cell Technologies. - Instead of stabbing the patients with diabetes first type of insulin, we deliver in their body cells that produce insulin themselves. These cells placed us in a capsule.

The insulin-producing cells (called beta cells) are contained in the insular cells located in the pancreas of man. However, people have a lack of free insular cells, so scientists from New Zealand and decided to fill this shortage by pigs. Their insular cells perform the same function as the human.