Type 2 Diabetes Is An Inflammatory Disease, Says Study
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 18:40
in Health & Medicine
It's well established that as people's waistlines increase, so does the chance for the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Scientists from Denmark have found that in mice, macrophages, a specific type of immune cell, invade the diabetic pancreatic tissue during the early stages of the disease then these inflammatory cells produce a large amount of pro-inflammatory proteins - cytokines - which directly contribute to the elimination of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, resulting in diabetes. read more