Re: SPOILER: Bo: New recovery option???

On Mar 11, 10:27=A0pm, Bada <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Xi Xin wrote:
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Re: SPOILER: Bo: New recovery
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0option??? =A0
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0S*Babykins wrote:
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0There are claims that the small part of
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 her pancreas that they take will grow
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 back. I don't know, though. It sounds =A0 =A0
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 fishy to me!
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0S*Babykins
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> > =A0XI XIN replies:
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Doesn't matter if the removed part of the pancreas
ca=
n grow
> > back or not. Point is anyone can live WITHOUT a pancreas. Lexie was
> > wrong when she said a donor could NOT live without a pancreas. It's
just=

> > not true. Chelsea's COMPLETE pancreas could be removed and she could
> > live to be 100. =A0 =A0
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 As far as the regeneration of a partial pancreas, I
don'=
t know.
> > I do know the liver will regrow if part of it is removed for
> > transplantation. I don't know if it gets back to full size or not.
When
> > a lobster loses a claw for whatever reason, it will grow back, but is
> > smaller than the original.
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0The whole point is though, that Lexie was 100% wrong.
Peo=
ple can
> > live even if 100% of the pancreas is removed.
>
> But you would have diabetes without the pancreas.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -


Not if you have a sucessful Islet Cell Transplantation procedure. The
pancreas isn't the only gland in the body where insulin can thrive,
but it's definitely an im****tant one. If the islet cells are removed
from the pancreas, they can be transplanted into the liver through the
****tal vein if the ****tal vein is strong and healthy enough for the
procedure to work. It works for some patients and not for others.


Diabetes occurs from the body not producing enough insulin. If another
organ can reliably accept the insulin producing cells, that gland
becomes the insulin maker in the place of the pancreas. The cells
produce Insulin and Glugagalon to help metabolize sugar. You need the
hormones and the cells working somehow in a functioning organ that
will accept them and the pancreas isn't the only organ these islet
cells can thrive in, luckily enough.


When the pancreas is removed, the body loses it's ability to produce
*more* insulin, but it does not shut off, short out or lose insulin
capacity and function entirely and a certain small amount of cells, if
they are *your own* can be removed and eventually thrive elsewhere in
the body.


I'm not positive, but your posts seem to indicate that you're of the
belief that the pancreas is the only area of the body that stores or
makes insulin. It can be stored in the liver and the islet cells from
the pancreas can be transferred. The islet cells are not cluster cells
and they're not plentiful, though. That's the tricky part. There's
also a short window in time in which to harvest the cells in a lab
before they absolutely must be transferred from the pancreas into the
new gland, which *seems* in most do***ented cases to be the liver.



S*Babykins