type 1 diabetes

American  

Or type I diabetes

noun

1. a severe form of diabetes mellitus in which insulin production by the beta cells of the pancreas is impaired, usually resulting in dependence on externally administered insulin, the onset of the disease typically occurring before the age of 25.

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Example Sentences

In people, this form of the disease is known as Type 1 diabetes.

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"Just like in human Type 1 diabetes, the diabetes that occurs in these mice results from an immune system that spontaneously attacks the insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets," Kim said.

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With this adjusted protocol, followed by blood stem cell transplantation, the mice developed a hybrid immune system made up of cells from both donor and recipient and did not go on to develop Type 1 diabetes in 19 out of 19 cases.

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In a separate group of animals with long-standing Type 1 diabetes, nine out of nine were cured after receiving the combined blood stem cell and islet cell transplant.

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Because the antibodies, drugs and low-dose radiation used in the mice are already part of standard clinical practice for blood stem cell transplantation, the researchers see moving this strategy toward trials in people with Type 1 diabetes as a realistic next step.

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