Diabetes, an infectious disease?
A new study and experiment result shows that diabetes has been transmitted via a protein from one mouse to another. This is strange because it has been thought that diabetes was an immune system disease and or caused beta cell failure. This would indicate that there could be some new unknowns.
Prions are insidious proteins that spread like infectious agents and trigger fatal conditions such as mad cow disease. A protein implicated in diabetes, a new study suggests, shares some similarities with these villains. Researchers transmitted diabetes from one mouse to another just by injecting the animals with this protein. The results don’t indicate that diabetes is contagious like a cold, but blood transfusions, or even food, may spread the disease.
- (IAPP) inslet amyloid polypeptide is involved and may kill beta cells.
- Scientists found that IAPP caused the blood sugar of infected mice to be higher than that of the controls.
- Large numbers of beta cells in the mice pancreas died after being infected.
What does this all mean?
Well this changes how we see diabetes from science point of view for sure. This new discovery is quite interesting. I wonder if there are records of this happening to humans.
Seriously diabeties infectious ? I thought it is about with hormones I will read that article !
nothing will surprise me, everything is changing :D
tnx for sharing!!
My grandfather died because of diabetes...
Interesting finding, it sets up an entertaining debate... probably an additional environmental factor to consider as a causative agent... Proteomics starting to show some findings
It will be interesting to see how many of these proteins come through the diet...through the foods the ADA recommends...hmmm...
They think it's a specific genetic code that makes the targetable by either a reno-virus or prion, causing the autoimmune response. People have had that theory for 20+ years