Diabetes: Immune system can regulate insulin

(University of Basel) Inflammation processes are responsible for the failure of insulin production in diabetes patients. The patients' own immune systems can contribute to treatment of this disease: researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have found a feedback mechanism that could help maintain insulin production in overweight sufferers, as they report in the journal Immunity.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news