Clinicians in parts of Africa had long suspected that some children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes did not quite fit the ...

Type 1 diabetes: Type 1 is sometimes classified as an autoimmune disease. It usually develops during childhood and causes your immune system to attack healthy pancreatic cells. In turn, your ...

November is National Diabetes Month, but for the more than a million children and adults in the U.S. living with Type 1 diabetes, every day and night is a constant reminder of a physically and ...

Type 1 diabetes is characterized by autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β cells in the pancreas by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and macrophages infiltrating the islets. 1 The disease accounts for ...

Cases of type 1 diabetes, which is caused by the immune system attacking pancreatic cells, rose in young people during the COVID pandemic Credit: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty A study of ...

Experimental type 1 diabetes drug shelters pancreas cells from immune system attack Drug 'hides' insulin-producing beta cells in mice Date: April 29, 2024 Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Summary ...

The immune system starts to recognise insulin-producing cells in the pancreas as something it needs to attack and destroy in people with type 1 diabetes — one of dozens of auto-immune diseases ...

Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. The loss of these cells leads to high blood sugar ...