A painless insulin release patch has been developed by American researchers. It would be extremely precise and could improve the lives of diabetic people, according to the results of a study published in the medical journal Advanced Materials. Results obtained on animals.
While insulin injections are painful and sometimes poorly dosed, researchers at the University of North Carolina (USA) have developed a new option for diabetics: a synthetic patch equipped with natural beta cells that can secreting doses of insulin to control the blood sugar level on demand without the risk of inducing hypoglycemia and that in a completely painless manner. In fact, injecting the wrong amount of medicine can cause serious complications such as blindness, limb amputations, or cause more disastrous consequences such as diabetic coma or death.
Improve the comfort of diabetics
Beta cells usually reside in the pancreas, where they act as factories that produceinsulin natural body. In healthy people, they produce, store and release insulin, a hormone needed to break down sugar in the blood after a meal. But in people with diabetes, these cells are damaged or unable to produce enough insulin to maintain and control blood sugar levels.
This painless release testinsulin has been tested on animals with type 1 diabetes. Equipped with micro-needles the size of an eyelash, it has been shown to be able to respond quickly to soaring blood sugar levels and lower them significantly. significant for 10 hours in a row.
Encouraging results for the 387 million diabetics in the world. To follow, clinical trials on humans to validate the effectiveness of this new therapeutic tool.
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